Finally

[Azad]

turks are full fledged in Iraq. I can now justify buying a Biiiiig screen TV.

"Feb. 22 (Bloomberg) -- Turkish soldiers crossed into northern Iraq in their first major incursion in 11 years, stepping up an assault against Kurdish militants after two months of air strikes.

The troops moved in late yesterday, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan told reporters in Ankara without saying how many soldiers were involved. Istanbul-based NTV television said that 10,000 Turkish soldiers pushed 10 kilometers (6 miles) into Iraq. CNN-Turk later said the attack involved 3,000 troops."

[crusader1492]

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I've been in the market for a LCD 42" myself...I hope to see many news stories of crying Turkish mothers.

[crusader1492]

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Turk troops clash with Kurd security forces in Iraq
ARBIL, Iraq (Reuters) - Turkish troops inside northern Iraq fought gunbattles with Iraqi Kurdish security forces on Thursday, a senior Iraqi Kurdish official said.

Fouad Hussein, head of the office of the president of Iraq's Kurdistan region, said Turkish troops tried to move tanks from a base that has long been inside northern Iraq, but Kurdish Peshmerga forces tried to stop them. A gunbattle erupted, he said, adding it was unclear if there were casualties.

[RSNATION]

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Turk troops clash with Kurd security forces in Iraq
ARBIL, Iraq (Reuters) - Turkish troops inside northern Iraq fought gunbattles with Iraqi Kurdish security forces on Thursday, a senior Iraqi Kurdish official said.

Fouad Hussein, head of the office of the president of Iraq's Kurdistan region, said Turkish troops tried to move tanks from a base that has long been inside northern Iraq, but Kurdish Peshmerga forces tried to stop them. A gunbattle erupted, he said, adding it was unclear if there were casualties.

I hope the Kurds bloody the Huns noses. A Turkish Vietnam???

Why not? The Turks could get bogged down and this time the Peshmerga may fight back in earnest.

[crusader1492]

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Kurdish rebels say battle Turk troops in N.Iraq
Fri Feb 22, 2008 8:00am EST

SULAIMANIYA, Iraq, Feb 22 (Reuters) - Kurdish rebels clashed on Friday with Turkish troops who entered northern Iraq to hunt down the separatist guerrillas, a spokesman for the rebels said.

"There are severe clashes. Two Turkish soldiers have been killed and eight wounded. There are no PKK casualties," Ahmed Danees, head of foreign relations for the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), told Reuters by satellite phone from an undisclosed location.

He said the fighting was taking place in the Zagros mountains in an area where the borders of Turkey, Iran and Iraq meet.

[crusader1492]

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Kurdish rebels say kill 22 Turkish soldiers in N.Iraq

SULAIMANIYA, Iraq (Reuters) - Kurdish rebels have killed 22 Turkish soldiers in clashes in northern Iraq, a spokesman for the rebel Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) said on Saturday.

Turkey's General Staff said on Friday it had lost five soldiers and killed at least 44 rebels in clashes since the start of its cross-border offensive against the PKK.

A Turkish security source could not confirm the report of further deaths on Saturday but said troops had killed a further 11 rebels, bringing the total PKK death toll according to Ankara's estimates to at least 55.

Verifying information from either side is difficult as the fighting is taking place in an inaccessible mountainous region.

Both the Turkish security sources and the pro-rebel Roj TV said that fighting on Saturday was intense in the mountainous Zap district of northern Iraq near the border.

"The fighting is intense right now, the area of operations is widening," PKK member Ozgur Gabar told Denmark-based Roj TV, adding that the rebels had collected the corpses of 15 soldiers.

But Ahmed Danees, head of foreign relations for the PKK, told Reuters by satellite phone that there had been no fresh clashes on Saturday, though Turkish warplanes and helicopters had attacked targets along the border.

"After clashes yesterday between the PKK and the Turkish forces, 22 Turkish soldiers were killed. Not more than five PKK soldiers were wounded," he said.

"Turkish forces used helicopters to evacuate the wounded," he said, speaking from an undisclosed location.

[Armenian]

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PKK 'shoots down Turkish chopper'

Kurdish rebels say they have shot down a Turkish Cobra attack helicopter during clashes in northern Iraq. Ahmed Danees, head of foreign relations for the Kurdistan Workers' Party, the PKK, made the claim - which has not been independently verified. "At 6 pm (1500 GMT) yesterday, our fighters shot down a Cobra helicopter," he told Reuters news agency. Turkey sent its forces across the border into northern Iraq to take on the rebels late on Thursday.

Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7261252.stm

[Azad]

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"ANKARA (Reuters) - A top Kurdish PKK rebel commander has urged Kurds living in Turkish cities to rise up and fight the authorities following Turkey's land offensive into northern Iraq, the pro-PKK Firat news agency said on Sunday."

I have to say that there are about 20 to 40 million kurds and they are one of the most perushan people on this planet.

[Kanki]

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Kurdish rebels say kill 22 Turkish soldiers in N.Iraq

I think N. Iraq Operation is not related with Armenians,Armenian diaspora and Armenia!

In addition, 22 soldiers is not true information, only 8 soldiers died as a martyr.
and 79 terrorist killed in last 27 hours.
And here "Turkish Army Forces" website English form http://www.tsk.mil.tr/eng/index.htm

[skhara]

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I think N. Iraq Operation is not related with Armenians,Armenian diaspora and Armenia!

Yes it does -- enemy of my enemy as the saying goes.