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Article: ARAB AFFAIRS - Aug 7 - Turkey And Iraq In Spat Over Terror Base.
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- APS Diplomat Recorder
- Article date:
- August 11, 2007
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Turkey and Iraq are locked in talks to try to resolve their differences over alleged terrorist bases near their joint border. The talks were the centre point of a visit to Ankara by the Iraqi PM Nouri al-Maliki, that was dominated by security and trade issues. Turkey has long maintained that militants from the PKK Kurdish separatist organisation hide out in the Kandil mountains in northern Iraq and launch attacks from there into Turkish territory. Ankara has been pressing Baghdad and the US to act against the PKK or face an incursion by Turkish troops. Relations between Turkey and Iraq, and between Turkey and the US, have been badly strained by the issue, and the Turkish ...
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