Turkey enters Iraqi borders

Khaleej Times Online - Turkey has 140,000 troops on Iraq border: "BAGHDAD - The Turkish army has 140,000 soldiers along its border with northern Iraq as part of a ‘great mobilisation’, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari said on Monday.

Turkey’s armed forces have urged its government to allow an incursion into neighbouring, mainly Kurdish, northern Iraq to crush Turkish Kurdish militants who use the region as a base to attack security and civilian targets inside Turkey."

Truthdig - Ear to the Ground - Turkish Forces Enter Iraq: "Turkish Forces Enter Iraq" - Posted on Jun 6, 2007

Although Turkey’s foreign minister, Abdullah Gul, is denying the report, other government insiders anonymously confirmed that several thousand Turkish troops crossed into northern Iraq on Wednesday to target Kurdish groups that have been attacking Turkey from Iraq, according to the Associated Press.