Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Turkey builds up forces on Iraqi border

Turkey builds up forces on Iraqi border (AP)

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, with his deputy and Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul before his address to the lawmakers of his Islamic-rooted Justice and Development Party at the Parliament in Ankara, Tuesday, May 29, 2007. Erdogan on Tuesday said the United States and Iraq should destroy bases of separatist Kurdish guerrillas in northern Iraq. Prime Minister Erdogan told private NTV television in an interview that Turkey was expecting the United States and Iraq to destroy bases of Kurdish guerrillas in northern Iraq. Erdogan did not rule out a cross-border Turkish operation against the rebels. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)AP - 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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