"U.S. scrambles to contain Kurdish-Turkey conflict October 26, 2007 | Page 2 U.S. DIPLOMATS were scrambling to keep Turkey from launching an offensive into Kurdish-dominated northern Iraq, as Socialist Worker went to press.
On October 21, Kurdish guerrillas launched their boldest offensive against Turkish troops in many years, killing 17 and taking eight hostage. Four days earlier, Turkey’s parliament had raised the stakes in the tense standoff by voting overwhelmingly for a one-year mandate for the Turkish military to carry out strikes in northern Iraq to root out fighters from the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK)."
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