"Turkey and the Kurds on the Brink Monday, Oct. 08, 2007 By PELIN TURGUT/ISTANBUL AND ANDREW LEE BUTTERS/AMMAN
The simmering conflict between Turkey and Kurdish guerrillas headquartered in neighboring Iraq may be getting close to a boil. On Sunday, after 13 Turkish soldiers were killed by rebels, the government in Ankara announced that it had shelled suspected hideouts of the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK), which wants some form of Kurdish self-rule in southeast Turkey. It was the worst number of casualties sustained by the Turkish army in nearly a decade. Just a week ago, a minibus was ambushed by suspected Kurdish rebels, killing 13 people, including a seven-year-old child."
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