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Thursday, June 07, 2007

swissinfo - Turk PM says Iraq incursion needs parliament approval

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ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan has repeated that parliament's approval was needed for an incursion into northern Iraq after reports of a cross-border military operation against Kurdish rebels.

Turkey's foreign ministry and military denied a report on Wednesday it had launched a major incursion into northern Iraq in pursuit of separatist Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) rebels."

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