"Defiant Kurdish rebels vow to retaliate if Turkish military strikes their northern Iraqi bases
QANDIL MOUNTAINS, Iraq — A defiant spokeswoman for the rebel Kurdistan Workers' Party said that if Turkey attacks the group's bases in Iraq's rugged northeastern mountains, the clandestine organization's fighters "will teach the Turks an unforgettable lesson."
Sozdar Avesta, a member of the party's political bureau, told The Associated Press in an interview Saturday in Iraq's ungoverned border region that despite international pressure the guerrilla group would not abandon its decades-long struggle against Turkey."
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