Turkey Withdraws from North Iraq

World | July 4, 2004, Sunday // 00:00

Turkey is withdrawing its remaining peacekeepers from northern Iraq where they have been deployed since 1997 to prevent internecine fighting. Iraqi Kurds have sought the withdrawal of the Turkish troops since the US-led war to topple former president Saddam Hussein saying the force could spark tension with Kurds. Turkish peacekeepers entered the enclave under the supervision of Britain and the US, which brokered a 1996 cease-fire between the rival Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK).

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