in a heartland that spans southeastern Turkey, northern Iraq, Iran and parts of Syria. The Kurds. YUME STUDIO (RTTNews) - - R.E.M. Its The End The Of Rising tensions on the Turkey-Iraq border are snowballing into a possible outbreak of war, as the president of the Kurdish region in northern. It
is a land of resistance, the mountain peaks and winding valleys where Iraq's own Kurds battled Saddam Hussein for decades. Now another generation of . A defiant spokesman for the rebel Kurdistan Workers' Party said Saturday that if 
Turkey attacks the group's bases in Iraq's rugged northeastern mountains,. Turkey fears that a stronger, semi-autonomous Kurdistan inside
Turkey rejects Iraqi proposals to tackle Kurds. ANKARA: Turkey rejected on Friday Iraqi proposals to
stop Kurdish rebels making cross-border
attacks as. The president of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region has urged the PKK to abandon violence in
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for Kurds in Turkey.. Ankara feels threatened by the Kurdish separatists, especially those attacking from bases in. FACTBOX: Tension over Kurds on Turkey-Iraq border. Turkey tightened
the screw on Kurdish rebels today by pushing ahead 
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