Foreign Correspondence

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1300 Terrorists reportedly enter Turkey from N. Iraq


Kurdish rebels said they were ending a five-year unilateral ceasefire and warned tourists and foreigner investors to stay away from Turkey, just a month before it was set to host US President George W. Bush at a major NATO summit.

"Our commitment to the ceasefire will cease to exist from June 1," KONGRA-GEL, the successor to the outlawed separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), said in a statement carried on the website of the German-based pro-Kurdish Mesopotamia news agency on Saturday.
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A Kurdish uprising in Turkey will probably spill into Iraq. The following excerpt confirms the relationship. The violence in Iraq will probably increase and Turkey’s bid for E.U. membership will be put in jeopardy.
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-Am


Tuesday, June 15 2004 @ 06:52 AM Central Daylight Time


The terrorist group PKK/KONGRAGEL has reportedly sent some 1,300 members from northern Iraq across the border into Turkey.

Recent reports stated that previously the group had some 500 armed militants in the southeastern Anatolia region, and now the number has climbed to 2,000. The terrorists are said to be moving in groups of 100. Security measures in the border region have been tightened to prevent terrorist infiltration.


http://www.turks.us/article.php?story=20040615065249748