Turkey extends mandate for Iraq strikes on Kurd rebels
11 October 2012 | 22:02 | FOCUS News Agency
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Ankara. Turkey's parliament on Thursday extended the government's mandate to order military strikes against Kurdish rebels holed up in neighbouring Iraq for another year, reported the Anatolia news agency reported.
Turkey has renewed since 2007 the motion giving a green light for the Turkish military to conduct cross-border raids to hit suspected bases of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in northern Iraq.
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