Turkey bombs Kurdish rebels in southeast
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SIRNAK, Turkey  - Helicopter gunships bombed Kurdish rebel positions in southeast Turkey on Monday and the government flexed its military muscle with big national day parades and flypasts in major cities.
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SIRNAK, Turkey  - Helicopter gunships bombed Kurdish rebel positions in eastern Turkey on Monday while the government flexed its military muscle with massive national day parades and flypasts in major cities.
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A radical faction of the rebel Kurdistan Workers' Party appears to have been behind a deadly bombing in southeast Turkey, Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Erdogan said.
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Turkish helicopters and fighter jets pounded Kurdish rebel positions on Friday as diplomatic efforts got off to a rocky start in Ankara to avert a major offensive against the guerrillas based in northern Iraq.
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Turkey has launched fresh air strikes across the border into northern Iraq against Kurdish rebels, the army says.
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Hitting Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq carries political risks for Turkey.
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DIYARBAKIR, Turkey  - A bomb exploded at a bus station in the mainly Kurdish city of Diyarbakir in southeastern Turkey on Friday, injuring five civilians and a soldier, security officials said.
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The attacks are the first time that Turkish warplanes have been employed in assaults against the Kurdish rebels.
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ANKARA, Turkey - Attack helicopters buzzed over a hilly region in southeastern Turkey yesterday looking for Kurdish rebels after troops reportedly killed 15 separatist guerrillas in a morning operation far from the increasingly tense border with Iraq.
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CIZRE, Turkey  - Turkish warplanes and troops have attacked Kurdish rebels inside Iraq and forces were being built up on the border, but Ankara was holding back from any major strike for now, military sources said on Wednesday.
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The bombing was part of an American-sanctioned effort by Turkeyâs military to weaken the Kurdish guerrilla group that hides in northern Iraq.
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ARBIL, Iraq  - Turkish war planes bombed Kurdish guerrilla targets in three villages just inside northern Iraq early on Monday, a senior Iraqi border security official said.
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Kurdish guerrillas killed a Turkish army major and injured two other soldiers Wednesday in a roadside bomb attack in southeastern Turkey, the governor's office said.
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Turkish helicopters and fighter jets pounded Kurdish rebel positions on Friday as diplomatic efforts began in Ankara to avert a major offensive against the guerrillas based in northern Iraq.
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Kurdish rebels kill at least seven Turkish soldiers in a raid on a military outpost in eastern Turkey, officials say.
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ANKARA Turkish troops have killed 11 Kurdish rebels in southeastern Turkey during the past three days, an official said Tuesday. It was biggest offensive against autonomy-seeking Kurds in five years.
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Turkey said dozens of its warplanes bombed Kurdish rebel targets as deep as 60 miles inside northern Iraq for three hours Sunday, the largest aerial attack in years against the outlawed separatist group. Turkey's military chief said the U.S. gave intelligence and tacit approval for the raid.