"Turkey urged over Iraq battle plan
POSTED: 1132 GMT (1932 HKT), June 27, 2007
(CNN) -- Turkey's top military commander urged his government's political leaders to make the guidelines clear if his forces are ordered across the Iraqi border to battle rebels with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), a prospect he suggested would be helpful.
Since the early 1980s, the Turkish government has been fighting the Kurdish separatist group, which wants an independent nation for its people. The battle has taken more than 30,000 lives. The European Union and the United States consider the PKK a terrorist group."
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