Turkey Ends Offensive Against Kurds in Iraq
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ANKARA, Turkey — The Turkish armed forces said Monday that they have withdrawn from northern Iraq after carrying out a three-day “annihilation operation” that killed at least 60 separatist Turkish Kurds.
“The operation is completed. . . . It can resume on the same scale if necessary,” a general staff spokesman, Col. Necdet Ipek, told reporters. “This time, they (rebels) were caught.”
Air-supported Turkish troops launched what they called an “annihilation operation” against the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) early Friday and withdrew late Sunday, he said.
It was Turkey’s third thrust into northern Iraq since August.
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