Turkey keeps up presure for Kurdish clampdown

Turkey today insisted that any cross border raid into Iraq would be a military operation and not an invasion.

Thu, 01 Nov, 2007 - 14:09

Turkey today insisted that any cross border raid into Iraq would be a military operation and not an invasion.

Minister for Foreign Afffairs Ali Babacan said a meeting on Monday between Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and President Bush “will determine the steps that Turkey would take".

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