"Turkey approaches its 'finest hour'
By Sami Moubayed DAMASCUS - With tension rising on the Turkish-Iraqi border over the weekend - Kurdish rebels killed 17 Turkish troops on Sunday - the region could be plunged into war in a matter of days. Armagan Kuloglu, a retired Turkish major general, expressed the public mood in Istanbul, saying: 'With this incident, the arrow has left the bow, and no room is left for the government to hesitate, postpone or fail to launch a cross-border operation.'"
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