Turkey sends more troops to Iraqi border
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HABUR, Turkey  - Turkish helicopters ferried more troops to the border with Iraq on Friday as diplomatic efforts got under way in Ankara to avert a major offensive against Kurdish guerrillas based in northern Iraq.
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Iraq will ask Iran and Turkey for border security arrangements to keep foreign militants out, similar to measures already agreed with Syria, the Iraqi Foreign Minister said on Monday.
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Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari says Turkey has massed 140,000 troops along its border with Iraq.
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Turkish troops conducted a "limited operation" into northern Iraq in recent days in pursuit of Kurdish rebels, a military official said on Wednesday.
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Iraq pledged on Tuesday to rein in Kurdish rebels who are launching attacks on Turkey from mountain hideouts near the border after Ankara threatened to send forces into Iraqi territory to confront the guerrillas.
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TUNCELI, Turkey  - Kurdish rebels killed 12 Turkish soldiers in an ambush on Sunday near the Iraqi border, forcing Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan to call crisis talks that may authorize a cross-border military offensive.
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Turkey sets up "temporary security zones" near its border with Iraq, where it has already deployed extra forces.
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HABUR, Turkey  - Turkish helicopters ferried more troops to the border with Iraq on Friday as diplomatic efforts got underway in Ankara to avert a major offensive against Kurdish guerrillas based in northern Iraq.
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DIYARBAKIR, Turkey  - Turkey's army has boosted troop levels in the restive southeast to more than 200,000, most of them stationed along the border with Iraq, security sources told Reuters on Friday.
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Turkish troops shelled a border area in northern Iraq early Sunday in an attack on Kurdish rebels based there, an Iraqi Kurdish leader said.
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BAGHDAD, Oct. 24 -- The Turkish military has ramped up military operations along the southern border with Iraq, with aircraft reportedly bombarding the mountainous terrain on Wednesday, part of a growing confrontation that threatens to open a new northern front in the Iraq war.
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Turkish aircraft on Sunday carried out fresh attacks on Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq, Turkey's Anatolia news agency reported, citing a spokesman for the Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga security force.
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SIRNAK, Turkey  - Turkish military planes scoured the Iraqi border for Kurdish rebel camps on Saturday, army sources said, after diplomatic talks in Ankara to avert a major cross-border operation into northern Iraq failed.
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Turkey on Saturday staged new air raids on Kurdish rebel positions in northern Iraq and more strikes will follow, the Turkish military said.
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Turkish helicopters ferried more troops to the border with Iraq on Friday as diplomatic efforts got under way in Ankara to avert a major offensive against Kurdish guerrillas based in northern Iraq.
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Turkey has sent large contingents of reinforcement soldiers, tanks and armored personnel carriers to its border with Iraq as debate heated up over whether to stage a cross-border offensive to hit Kurdish rebel bases.
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SULAIMANIYA, Iraq  - Turkish warplanes bombed an area inside Iraq near the border with Turkey on Tuesday, but no one was hurt in the strike, an Iraqi Kurdish border guard official said.