Turkish warplanes and troops attacked Kurdish rebels inside Iraq this week, security sources said on Wednesday (October 24), but Ankara wants to hold back from any major incursion for now to give diplomacy a chance. Turkey moved more troops to the mountainous Iraqi border, keeping up pressure on Baghdad to honour promises to crack down on an estimated 3,000 rebels of Turkey's outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) who use northern Iraq as a base. Security sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, confirmed a series of sorties between Sunday (October 21) and Tuesday (October 23) evening in which Turkish warplanes flew 20 km (12 miles) into Iraq and some 300 ground troops advanced about 10 km. "Further 'hot pursuit' raids into northern Iraq can be expected, though none have taken place so far today (Wednesday)," a military official told Reuters. The sorties killed 34 PKK rebels and all the Turkish troops involved in the operations were now back in Turkey, he said. But Abdul Rahman...
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