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Wednesday, October 08, 2008

AFP: Turkish parliament extends mandate on Iraq strikes

"Turkish parliament extends mandate on Iraq strikes

ANKARA (AFP) — Turkey's parliament Wednesday extended the government's mandate to order strikes against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq as an attack on a police bus in the country's southeast killed five people.

The assault came just days after rebels from the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) killed 17 soldiers in a daytime attack on a military outpost near the border with Iraq."

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