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Cizre, Turkey: Turkish troops killed 20 Kurdish guerrillas yesterday in a major operation against separatist rebels in eastern Turkey, army sources said.
The operation involved 8,000 troops with air support in the eastern province of Tunceli, hundreds of kilometres from the Iraqi border. The source gave no details on army casualties.
Ankara also feels threatened by Kurdish separatists using bases in mountainous northern Iraq for attacks on Turkey, and Turkey's foreign minister said a military solution was still on the table to tackle these rebels.
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