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Turkey may use air strikes on PKK

Turkey may use air strikes on PKK

army, NATO`s second-largest, might follow the strikes with helicopter gunship, tanks and armored personnel carriers that would punch across the border as helicopters ferry commandos to a string of guerrilla bases some 20 kilometers from the frontier, military analysts say.‏

"We have told the US and Iraq that we will do what is necessary to protect our interests if within a few days those developments that we expect do not take place,`` Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Monday at the Oxford Union debating society in the UK.‏

An assault on Iraq "does not necessarily mean sending in ground troops,`` Erdogan added. "There are various ways of doing it."‏

On Monday, Arab nations, Jordan and Egypt joined the US and Europe in urging Turkey`s government not to attack PKK while Turkish citizens rallied across the country demanding action against the terroris‏

2007-10-23