Turkey Vows 'Great Revenge' For Kurdish Attack On Soldiers
October 19, 2011
Turkey has vowed "great revenge" for the killing of two dozen Turkish soldiers by Kurdish militants in the deadliest rebel attack in Turkey in several years.
Turkish officials said about 100 fighters from the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) carried out simultaneous attacks under cover of darkness on seven remote army outposts in the country's Hakkari Province, near Turkey's southeastern border with Iraq.
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Ankara was in "hot pursuit" of the militants and had sent air and ground forces into northern Iraq in a response that he said falls within the "limits of international law."
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