Turkish artillery shelled suspected positions of Kurdish rebels based across the border in northern Iraq on Friday, according to reports. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice warned Turkey that it risked expanding regional tensions with any "robust" move of troops into Iraq.
The mobilizing military forces have yet to begin the large-scale incursion into northern Iraq to hunt Kurdish guerrillas that Turkey is threatening.
Turkey's military declares its "unshakable determination" to defeat Kurdish separatists based in Iraq.
Turkey has increased its military forces along the Iraqi border amid mounting clashes with Kurdish guerillas.
In an effort to root out Kurdish separatist guerrillas Turkey is stepping up its presence along its border of Iraq.
Cadbury Schweppes said it had agreed to buy Intergum of Turkey for $450 million to gain almost half of the country?s chewing gum market. Intergum, which has a 46 percent market share in Turkey, will be acquired from the Amram family, Cadbury said. Cadbury, which is based in London, is in the process of selling or spinning off its North American soft drinks unit, which makes Dr Pepper and 7Up.
TURKEY risks increasing regional tensions by moving troops into Iraq against Kurdish rebels, Condoleezza Rice, the US Secretary of State, said. She added it would be "not good for Iraq and not good for Turkey".
SIRNAK, Turkey, June 8 (UPI) -- Turkey has increased its military forces along the Iraqi border amid mounting clashes with Kurdish guerillas. So far, Turkish officials have obeyed warnings from the United States not to cross the border into Iraqi Kurdistan, The New York Times reported.
Turkey could risk expanding regional tensions with a "robust" move of troops into northern Iraq against Kurdish rebels, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Friday. The statement by Rice, speaking to a panel of journalists and editors from The Associated Press, suggested that Washington could do little.
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