"Iran and Turkey seal off borders
Kurdish mobilization puts U.S. in a quandary over its support of northern Iraq provinces
Sunday, May 14, 2006
BY LOUIS MEIXLER
Associated Press
ANKARA, Turkey -- Hundreds of Kurds had to flee their homes in the mountain village of Razqa, Iraq, when artillery shells came whistling down from Iran early this month, blowing apart their homes and livestock.
In Turkey, meanwhile, armored personnel carriers and tanks rumble along its remote border with Iraq's Kurdish zone. Turkey has sent tens of thousands of fresh soldiers in the last few weeks to beef up an already formidable force there."
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