"Turkey Strengthens Forces Against Kurds
By SELCAN HACAOGLU Associated Press Writer
© 2006 The Associated Press
ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey has sent thousands of soldiers backed by tanks to its overwhelmingly Kurdish southeast and the Iraqi border following stepped-up attacks by Turkish Kurdish guerrillas, officials and reports said Friday.
Fighting between soldiers and the guerrillas, who are based in northern Iraq, often intensifies in the spring, when the snows melt, clearing mountain passes along the border."
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