"Gates: Military action alone won't solve Turkey's problems with Kurds
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Published: Feb 24, 2008 5:00 am
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) - Turkey's military assault into northern Iraq will not solve the terrorist problem there, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said today, calling for greater political and economic initiatives by the Turks to win over supporters of the Kurdish rebels.
Speaking as the Turkish military continued its first major ground incursion into Iraq since 2003, Gates said it will take a broader approach, similar to U.S. and coalition efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan, to erode support for the rebel Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, in northern Iraq."
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