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Article: Turkey Pulls 3,000 Troops From N. Iraq; Move Does Not Signal Full- Scale Withdrawal
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- The Washington Post
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- April 9, 1995
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Turkey has withdrawn 3,000 of the 35,000 troops it sent into
northern Iraq last month to attack Turkish Kurdish separatists, the
Turkish government announced today.
The incursion has drawn sharp criticism and calls for withdrawal
from Western governments. Turkish officials stressed that the pullout
proved its forces had no plans to permanently occupy Iraqi territory,
but that it was not the start of a full-scale withdrawal.
The departure of a brigade of troops was completed today, a
Turkish military spokesman said, two days before a planned visit to
Ankara by U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott. Turkish
Prime Minister Tansu Ciller is scheduled to meet with President
Clinton in ...