Opposition pressures Turkish government to take military action in Iraq
Opposition pressures Turkish government to take military action in Iraq
ANKARA, Turkey: Turkey's main opposition party increased pressure on the government to send soldiers to Iraq as parliament went into a closed-door session on Tuesday to debate the country's policy on Iraq and find ways to fight separatist Kurdish guerrillas based there. Turkey has expressed dissatisfaction with U.S. and Iraqi efforts to contain Turkish Kurdish guerrillas, who Ankara says have been using bases in Iraq to fight for autonomy in Turkey's southeast. Opposition parties have been trying to get the government to consider possible military action or economic embargoes to force Iraqi Kurds to cooperate with Turkey. Iraqi Kurdish groups have fought alongside Turkish Kurdish guerrillas in Iraq during several Turkish incursions in the past.
The government agreed to put the country's Iraq policy up for discussion in the 550-member parliament, but details of the discussion are not to be made public.
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