"How Turkey Could Undermine Iraq
By Nick Timiraos Word Count: 811
Turkey's parliament voted overwhelmingly this past week to allow its army to cross the Iraqi border to fight Kurdish rebels, a move that President Bush warned against because it would threaten the stability of one of Iraq's few relatively peaceful regions. The vote comes in response to attacks by Kurdish rebels that killed at least two dozen Turkish civilians and soldiers two weeks ago, the deadliest such attacks in 12 years. The prospect of a cross-border Turkish campaign helped drive oil prices to an intraday high of $90 a barrel."
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