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Turkey Presses Iraqis After Attack by Rebels
Retaliatory strikes by Turkish warplanes, helicopter gunships and heavy artillery into northern Iraq kill at least 23 of the Kurdish rebels, a military spokesman in Ankara says.
Washington Post
"ISTANBUL, Oct. 4 -- Turkey pressed neighboring Iraq on Saturday to take action against Kurdish rebels after they killed 15 Turkish soldiers near a border outpost, in the rebels' single deadliest attack against Turkish forces this year.
Retaliatory strikes by Turkish warplanes, helicopter gunships and heavy artillery into northern Iraq killed at least 23 of the Kurdish rebels, Brig. Gen. Metin Gurak, a Turkish military spokesman, told reporters in Ankara, the capital."
"The rebels are members of theKurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, an armed group that has fought for greater autonomy for Turkey's Kurdish minority since 1984. The rebels are based in southeastern Turkey and in northern Iraq, where Iraq's Kurdish minority runs a largely autonomous Kurdish government."
"An Iraqi government spokesman said the Kurdish rebels were trying to increase tension between the two countries.
"The Iraqi government calls upon the Turkish government to deal with this terrorist activity with prudence and self-restraint, so as to not allow the enemies of Iraq and Turkey to achieve their goal," the spokesman,Ali al-Dabbagh, said in a statement.
Iraq's central government, wary of adding to the country's many internal conflicts, has not publicly pressed Iraqi Kurdish officials for campaigns against PKK fighters in the north."
Retaliatory strikes by Turkish warplanes, helicopter gunships and heavy artillery into northern Iraq killed at least 23 of the Kurdish rebels, Brig. Gen. Metin Gurak, a Turkish military spokesman, told reporters in Ankara, the capital."
"The rebels are members of theKurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, an armed group that has fought for greater autonomy for Turkey's Kurdish minority since 1984. The rebels are based in southeastern Turkey and in northern Iraq, where Iraq's Kurdish minority runs a largely autonomous Kurdish government."
"An Iraqi government spokesman said the Kurdish rebels were trying to increase tension between the two countries.
"The Iraqi government calls upon the Turkish government to deal with this terrorist activity with prudence and self-restraint, so as to not allow the enemies of Iraq and Turkey to achieve their goal," the spokesman,Ali al-Dabbagh, said in a statement.
Iraq's central government, wary of adding to the country's many internal conflicts, has not publicly pressed Iraqi Kurdish officials for campaigns against PKK fighters in the north."
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