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标 题: 1,000 Turkish Troops Move Into N. Iraq
发信站: 哈工大紫丁香 (2003年03月22日10:09:11 星期六), 站内信件
1,000 Turkish Troops Move Into N. Iraq
Saturday March 22, 2003 1:00 AM
CIZRE, Turkey (AP) - Turkey sent 1,000 troops into northern Iraq on Friday t
o bolster its military presence and promised to send more to prevent Iraqi K
urds from creating an independent state.
The United States strongly opposes any unilateral move by Turkey into northe
rn Iraq, fearing it would disrupt the U.S. campaign to oust Saddam Hussein.
Iraqi Kurds - who like Turkey are U.S. allies - have threatened attacks on a
ny invading Turkish forces.
``We don't see any need for any Turkish incursions into northern Iraq,'' Sec
retary of State Colin Powell said Friday.
Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul, however, insisted Turkey was determined to se
nd in a large force.
Ankara fears the U.S.-led war could lead to Iraq's fragmentation, prompting
Iraqi Kurds to declare independence. It wants to impose a presence in the no
rth to prevent that step, which could encourage Turkey's Kurdish separatists
.
``Turkish soldiers will go in,'' Gul told reporters. He said Turkey's object
ives were ``Iraq's territorial integrity'' and containing within Iraq any re
fugee flow caused by the war.
``Turkey has no designs whatsoever on Iraq's territory,'' Gul said.
Turkey moved 1,000 soldiers into northern Iraq on Friday, a Turkish military
official said. The mechanized infantry unit, which included armored personn
el carriers, crossed into Iraq near the town of Cukurca, where the borders o
f Turkey, Iraq and Iran converge.
The military is also shifting some 5,000 soldiers to the border region, the
official said on customary condition of anonymity. Thousands of troops are c
amped near the town of Silopi, close to the border and about 20 miles south
of the town of Cizre.
Turkey already maintains several thousand soldiers in northern Iraq to chase
Turkish Kurdish guerrillas. Some of those troops were moved Friday to strat
egic hilltops used in the past by Iraqi Kurds for anti-aircraft guns, the mi
litary official said.
Gul's statement came after Turkey agreed to allow U.S. overflights for the w
ar, held up because of differences over Turkish troop deployments in Iraq.
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