"Turkey asks Iraq to act against Kurdish parties with alleged links to rebels
AFP: 1/19/2005
ANKARA, Jan 19 (AFP) - Turkey has asked Iraqi authorities to launch legal proceedings against two Kurdish parties, believed to be linked to Turkish Kurd rebels who have been fighting a bloody war against Ankara, officials said Wednesday.
About 5,000 members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which has waged a 15-year armed campaign for Kurdish self-rule in southeast Turkey, are estimated to have found refuge across the border in northern Iraq prior to the US-led occupation of the country in March 2003. "
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