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Mon 10 Oct 2008Turkey launches attacks on Kurds
IRAQ:TURKEY STAGED retaliatory airstrikes against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq yesterday as thousands of Turks attended rain-lashed funerals for 15 soldiers killed by the rebels in a cross-border attack from Iraq.
Public anger mounted in Turkey at the inability of civilian leaders to stop attacks by the rebel Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK. The group has waged a 24-year guerrilla war for greater autonomy for Turkey's minority Kurds from bases in southeastern Turkey and northern Iraq.
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