"With the P.K.K. in Iraq’s Qandil Mountains
By STEPHEN FARRELL, SHIHO FUKADA AND STEVEN LEE MYERS
QANDIL, Iraq — It is not easy to visit the mountainous borderlands of northern Iraq where the Kurdistan Workers’ Party operates, but it is not impossible either.
Such is the peculiar position of a group of committed insurgents against Turkish rule in Kurdish lands — even as Turkey and Iraq seek deeper and deeper ties, through diplomacy and trade, especially with Iraq’s semiautonomous Kurdish region. "
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