"Why Turkey is wary of Kurdish rebel trap Turks broadly support a strike into Iraq, but that could play into the hands of the PKK. By Scott Peterson | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
Istanbul, Turkey - As Turkey sends military convoys to its southeast border with Iraq, diplomatic efforts are intensifying to head off a cross-border incursion aimed at crushing the separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
On Tuesday, Turkish Foreign Minister Ali Babacan traveled to Baghdad and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan was in London to increase pressure on US and Iraqi forces in northern Iraq to halt a surge of attacks that peaked Sunday with the most lethal guerrilla strike in a decade. Twelve soldiers were killed and eight went missing. "
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