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Senior general: Turkey on verge of cross-border operation
ANKARA, (Xinhua) -- A senior Turkish army general said Thursday that the country was in the process of implementing across-border operation against the outlawed Kurdish Workers' Party(PKK) based in northern Iraq, private NTV reported. "We are now in the process of implementing a cross-border operation," which "will be a heavy blow to PKK camps in northern Iraq," General Ilker Basbug, head of the land forces, was quoted as saying. No further details about the operation were immediately available, but Basbug noted that the parliament has authorized the cabinet on the operation. Of course, when and how this mandate will be implemented is "a completely separate issue", he added. The general's remarks came one day after Ankara said the United States had begun to share intelligence on rebel targets in northern Iraq. Posted by: anonymous5089 2007-11-16 |
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