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Posted On: October 17th 2007
Posted By: Adam Coozer
Source: CNN |
Turkey approves Iraq incursion
(CNN) -- The Turkish parliament has voted to allow its military to make an incursion into Iraq and chase down Kurdish rebels staging cross-border attacks.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government had asked parliament in Ankara on Monday to authorize a military incursion, and the lawmakers responded with overwhelming approval, 507 to 19.
Parliamentary approval, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said before the debate, would not necessarily trigger immediate military action and many analysts doubt a full-scale invasion will be launched.
Turkey has already massed 60,000 troops in the region and over the weekend it shelled farms across the border.
Jamal Abdullah, an Iraqi Kurdish Regional Government spokesman, reacted to the Turkish vote by saying the solution should be a political and diplomatic one, not a military one.
An incursion across the border would be "violating the sovereignty of another country and is against international laws and treaties," he said.
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