U.S. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice intervened to ward off a strike by Turkey on northern Iraq after an ambush by Kurdish rebels left at least 12 Turkish soldiers dead.
Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice intervened to ward off a strike by Turkey on northern Iraq after an ambush by Kurdish rebels left at least 12 Turkish soldiers dead.
Turkey said Sunday it was ready to pay any price to win victory over Kurdish separatists after 12 soldiers and 32 rebels were killed in heavy clashes near the tense border with Iraq.
Iraq's president said on Sunday that Baghdad could not deliver Kurdish rebel leaders to Turkey, as the crisis over the Iraq-based fighters intensified with the killing of 12 Turkish soldiers.
Turkey vowed strong action Sunday against Kurdish separatists after 12 of its soldiers and 32 rebels were killed in clashes sparked by an ambush near the tense border with Iraq.
Turkey intends to pursue Kurdish rebels in Iraq, though planning for military operations is not being done urgently in response to a deadly ambush inside Turkey by the guerrillas, the country's defense chief said Sunday.
Separatist Kurdish rebels killed at least 12 Turkish soldiers and wounded 17 more in Hakkari Province near Turkey's border with Iraq and Iran on Sunday, a Turkish government source told CNN.
A bomb on a road in southeast Turkey on Sunday injured 14 people inside a minibus and Kurdish rebels were suspected to have detonated it, CNN-Turk television reported.
Twenty-three Kurdish rebels and 12 Turkish soldiers were killed Sunday in an attack on a military patrol in southeast Turkey which the army blamed on Kurd separatists.
The president of Iraq's northern Kurdish region, Massud Barzani, on Sunday refused to hand over top Kurdish rebels to Turkey.