Turkey thanks US for aiding airstrikes

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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article3095514.ece


ANKARA Abdullah Gül, the Turkish President, praised the US for providing military intelligence as Turkey confirmed its third airstrike in ten days against Kurdish rebel hideouts in northern Iraq. The attack on Nirvorokan in Dohuk province was the third against Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) targets in northern Iraq that the military has confirmed since December 16, in addition to a cross-border ground operation.

The Turkish general staff said that six PKK militants were killed in mountains inside Turkey, bringing to 11 the death toll from a two-day security operation in the area.

The PKK has waged a bloody campaign for Kurdish self-rule in southeast Turkey since 1984. Ankara says that about 3,500 PKK militants have taken refuge in northern Iraq.

The US, while supportive of limited Turkish military action in Iraq to fend off PKK incursions, fears that a large cross-border operation by the Turkish military may destabilise the relatively peaceful northern part of Iraq and fuel tensions between the Iraqi Kurds and Turkey, both US allies. (AFP)

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1. My government makes me ill

I really can't stand supporting murder, no matter who is doing the killing.