Turkey deploy forces against Kurdish rebels
Iraq-Turkey, Politics, 4/27/2006

Following the killing of two Turkish soldiers yesterday "Turkey has deployed more than 30,000 additional troops in its predominantly Kurdish southeast and along its rugged border with Iraq and Iran to fight Kurdish guerrillas and stop them from coming across the frontier, officials said Thursday," a New York Times report said.

The report said the area has some 250,000 Turkish soldiers and that "Guerrillas of the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, have bases in northern Iraq but also have substantial forces in the mountains of southeastern Turkey. They typically step up their attacks in the spring, when winter snow melts,"

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