Tuesday, 18 December, 2007 , 14:41 AFP — Turkey's leaders said Tuesday its army was doing "what is necessary" to combat Kurdish rebels but stopped short of explicitly confirming a Turkish military incursion into northern Iraq.
Tuesday, 18 December, 2007 , 14:21 AFP — The president of Iraq's Kurdish region is refusing to meet US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who was in Iraq Tuesday, because of the US position over Turkey sending soldiers into northern Iraq, a top Kurdish official said.
Tuesday, 18 December, 2007 , 09:35 AFP — Turkish troops entered northern Iraq early on Tuesday to flush out separatist Kurdish rebels, Jabbar Yawar, spokesman for the Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga security force, told AFP.
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Monday, 17 December, 2007 , 20:55 AFP — Iraq strongly condemned Monday Turkish air strikes on Kurdish rebel bases in its territory, branding them a "cruel attack" on Iraqi sovereignty that claimed innocent lives.
Monday, 17 December, 2007 , 20:39 AFP — Turkish police apprehended Monday evening the head of the country's main Kurdish party for using false documents to duck military service, the Anatolia press agency reported.
Monday, 17 December, 2007 , 20:11 AFP — UN chief Ban Ki-moon is "concerned" over the Turkish air strikes against separatist Kurdish rebels based inside northern Iraq which may have caused civilian casualties, his press office said Monday.
Monday, 17 December, 2007 , 17:07 AFP — The separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) threatened retaliation on Monday following Turkish air strikes on its bases in northern Iraq at the weekend.
Monday, 17 December, 2007 , 16:39 AFP — The US State Department said Monday that Turkish air raids on Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq appeared "in keeping with" past strikes, but vowed it would oppose a large-scale, cross-border incursion.
Monday, 17 December, 2007 , 16:08 AFP — The Kurdish regional government in north Iraq has agreed to delay by six months the referendum on the future of the oil-rich city of Kirkuk, easing immediate tensions among the mixed population.
