There was a little Kabuki about Turkey's foreign minister speaking with Maliki but we all know the central government has almost no power in the Kurdish provinces.
Turkey masses more troops, raids in Iraq confirmed
Wed Oct 24, 2007 7:49am EDT
By Thomas Grove
CIZRE, Turkey (Reuters) - 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.
News of the sorties, between Sunday and Tuesday evening in which Turkish warplanes flew 20 km (13 miles) into Iraq and some 300 ground troops advanced about 10 km, put Baghdad under greater pressure to act against PKK rebels operating from the north of its territory.
The sources said 34 rebels of the outlawed PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party) had been killed in the sorties. All Turkish troops involved in the operations had returned to Turkey.
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
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