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Turkey: concluded the the offensive against PKK in Iraqi Kurdistan

Ankara, Turkey - Doubts on troops pull-out: total or partial?

"Regardless of foreign pressures" the offensive - started last February 21st - by Turkish air and ground forces on frontier territories of the Iraqi Kurdistan for destroying the bases of PKK guerrilla (the workers party against the present government) would have come to an end. The pressures mentioned by a note spread on the Internet are those of Iraq itself, joined by those of the US, in the person...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1086513
Rome, Italy, 02/29/2008 18:10
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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