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Iraq |
Turkish ground troops enter Iraq in operation against Kurdish fighters |
2008-02-23 |
![]() Reports of the numbers of troops varied. Reuters cited the Turkish foreign minister and an unidentified American official in Baghdad as saying that only a few hundred had been deployed, while Turkish television reported that about 10,000 troops had been deployed. In Baghdad, Rear Admiral Gregg Smith described the incursion as "an operation of limited duration to specifically target PKK terrorists in that region." |
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