Posted on 10/07/2007 5:12:56 PM PDT by Flavius
TUNCELI, Turkey (Reuters) - Kurdish rebels shot dead 13 Turkish soldiers on Sunday, the worst such incident in years and likely to put more pressure on the government to authorize a cross-border military strike against Kurdish bases in Iraq.
The soldiers were killed after the army -- which has boosted its troops in the southeast and introduced security zones limiting access for civilians in the region -- killed a PKK suspect earlier in the day in fighting in Sirnak province
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This is an important incident - front page news, IMO. It is certainly raising the heat on the Turkish/Iraq border.
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