Turk army chief reaffirms need for N.Iraq incursion

The head of Turkey's powerful armed forces reaffirmed on Wednesday his view that a cross-border operation into northern Iraq to crush Kurdish rebels based there would be beneficial.

"I have said (in April) that we need a cross-border operation and that this would bring benefits. I repeat this view now," General Yasar Buyukanit told a news conference shown live on Turkish television.
Army Spc. Aaron Emerson, who recently received orders to deploy to Iraq, lets wife Hillary Emerson shave his head at his going-away party as family members look on in Lawrence, Kansas, June 16, 2007. In the big yard of an old blue farmhouse, around a worn wooden table only partly shaded from the Kansas sun, parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins of Emerson spent a summer day saying their goodbyes, offering quiet prayers and seeking a few moments of laughter. To match feature USA-IRAQ/FAREWELL
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