Turkish troops have launched a ground incursion across the border into Iraq in pursuit of separatist Kurdish rebels, the military said Friday - an action that dramatically escalates Turkey's conflict with the militants.
It is the first confirmed Turkish military ground operation in Iraq since the US-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003, and it raised concerns that it could trigger a wider conflict with the US-backed Iraqi Kurds despite Turkish assurances that its only target was the PKK rebel group.
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