"U.S., Turkish contacts unnerve Kurds
By Marsi Abu Tauq
Azzaman, July 25, 2006
Iraqi Kurds, who have set up a semi-independent state in the north, are wary that instability in the Middle East will encourage Ankara to mount cross border operations in pursuit of its own Kurdish guerrillas.
The Turkish government has been citing the current crisis in Lebanon sparked by a cross-border attack by rebels from the Lebanese guerrilla group, Hizbollah, as a pretext to conduct its own war against Turkish Kurds.
Turkish officials say Kurdish rebels known as PKK have killed at least 15 Turkish troops in the past few days through cross-border attacks from inside Iraq and have escalated their operations."
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