TURKEY’S MILITARY LEADERS TO CONTINUE CROSS-BORDER ATTACKS AGAINST PKK REBELS
PanARMENIAN.Net
22.02.2008 12:37 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Turkey’s military and civilian leaders vowed to
press ahead Thursday with cross-border attacks against Kurdish rebels
in Iraq as Turkish artillery shelled suspected Kurdish rebel targets
across the Iraqi border.
They issued a statement after a bimonthly meeting on national security,
saying cross-border attacks by the military would continue as long
they were "deemed necessary."
The document says that Ankara will not break off political, trade,
economic and military cooperation with neighborly Iraq. Turkey stands
for territorial integrity of Iraq, the military said, ITAR-TASS
reports.
Last October, Turkey’s parliament voted overwhelmingly to authorize
the nation’s military forces to invade northern Iraq to hunt for some
4,000 Kurdish rebels.
The PKK have struggled for formation of independent Kurdistan
since 1984