Turks Cross Border After PKK Rebels
June 21 2010
Turkish commandos struck inside northern Iraq on Sunday as they pursued Kurdish rebels, according to state media accounts cited by Agence France-Presse.
Turkish officials called the operation a response to an attack by the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) that killed 12 Turkish soldiers on Saturday.
During the fighting on Sunday, a 15-year-old girl was among those killed, said security officials.
Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, an ethnic Kurd, criticized the...
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