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Turkey: Fighting With Kurds Will Surge (Time Magazine)
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Wed, 31 Oct 2007 04:17:28 GMT

Turkey's prime minister said Tuesday increased military action against separatist Kurdish rebels was "unavoidable" and pressed the United States for a crackdown on guerrilla bases in northern Iraq


Turkey threats lift rebel Kurds' profile (AP via Yahoo! News)
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Tue, 30 Oct 2007 20:50:55 GMT

A few years ago, Turkey's Kurdish guerrillas seemed adrift, their leader jailed and numbers diminished. Prone to factionalism, they were unsure of whether to pursue war or peace.


Turkey: Fighting with Kurds will surge (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
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Wed, 31 Oct 2007 03:28:57 GMT

By SUZAN FRASER Turkey's prime minister said Tuesday increased military action against separatist Kurdish rebels was "unavoidable" and pressed the United States for a crackdown on guerrilla bases in northern Iraq. Turkish helicopters pounded rebel positions near the border with rockets for a second day and Turkey brought in troops by the truckload in an operation against mountainside ...


Iraqi Kurds reject 'orders' from Ankara, Turkey pounds rebels (AFP via Yahoo! News)
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Tue, 30 Oct 2007 11:25:43 GMT

Iraq's Kurdish leader dismissed the idea of taking "orders" from Ankara to crack down on Turkish Kurd rebel bases in his region as Turkey continued Tuesday to pound positions near their border.


Iraq's Kurdish leader rejects 'orders' from Turkey (AFP via Yahoo! News)
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Tue, 30 Oct 2007 09:54:40 GMT

Iraq's Kurdish leader Massud Barzani said in an interview published Tuesday that he would not take orders from Turkey to crack down on Turkish Kurd rebels based in his autonomous region.


Turkey Point guards snoozed, NRC says (Miami Herald)
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Wed, 31 Oct 2007 01:57:03 GMT

Security guards at Florida Power & Light's Turkey Point nuclear power plant slept on the job, or covered for snoozing colleagues, on a number of occasions from 2004 to 2006, federal regulators said Tuesday.


Cultic City And Fortress Unearthed In Southern Turkey (Science Daily)
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Wed, 31 Oct 2007 01:11:49 GMT

New excavations in southern Turkey have revealed the remains of a massive bastion fortification dating to the Hittite Imperial Period (ca. 1300 BC). Sirkeli Höyük, one of the largest settlement mounds in Cilicia during the Bronze- and Iron Ages, was already known to archaeologists and historians because of two Hittite rock reliefs located at the site.


Turkey Threats Lift Rebel Kurds' Profile (AP via Yahoo! Singapore News)
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Tue, 30 Oct 2007 20:50:00 GMT

A few years ago, Turkey's Kurdish guerrillas seemed adrift, their leader jailed and numbers diminished.


Turkey pounds rebels, warns US over ties (Khaleej Times)
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Wed, 31 Oct 2007 02:46:21 GMT

SIRNAK, Turkey - The Turkish army pounded Kurdish rebels near the Iraqi border on Tuesday as Ankara warned that ties with Washington would suffer as long as the separatists in northern Iraq are not reined in.


Turkey's PM demands US crackdown on rebel Kurds in Iraq (Straits Times)
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Wed, 31 Oct 2007 04:38:59 GMT

ANKARA - TURKEY'S prime minister has said that intensified military action against separatist Kurdish rebels was unavoidable and pressed the United States to crack down on guerrilla bases in northern Iraq.