"Turkey May Step Up Fight Against Rebels
By SELCAN HACAOGLU
The Associated Press
Sunday, July 16, 2006; 8:38 PM
ANKARA, Turkey -- Turkey said Sunday that it was weighing an escalation of its fight against Kurdish rebels after the guerillas killed seven Turkish soldiers and a village guard.
Turkish officials said the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, which wants autonomy for Turkey's Kurdish-dominated southeast, launched the deadly ambush from neighboring northern Iraq Saturday. The assault, and a fatal attack on a police officer Sunday, drove the number of Turks the PKK has killed since Thursday to 14."
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