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Monday, 12 March 2007
Burning issue: Turkish Iraq policy
Turkish officials see the recent developments in Iraq following the collapse of the Saddam regime as a peculiar case with an uncertain future affecting Turkey’s security in the region. Recently, the Turkish government stated that the idea of organizing a meeting in Istanbul on Iraq's security has been accepted by all the related parties (Iraq's neighbors, the permanent members of the U.N. Security Council and the Group of Eight nations).
On Saturday a top Turkish general reaffirmed Ankara's right under international law to send troops into northern Iraq to crush PKK militants.
"Turkey can always take measures against the terrorist organization in northern Iraq if our military needs require it… under international law," Gen. İlker Başbuğ, head of the Land Forces, told reporters in Diyarbakır.
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