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Tensions on Iraq-Turkey border Reuters
The Turkish government is due to seek parliament's approval this week for a cross-border military operation into northern Iraq.
Tensions over northern Iraq helped send oil prices to record highs on Monday. The United States fears a major incursion to crush Kurdish PKK guerrillas using northern Iraq as a springboard to launch attacks into Turkey could destabilise the only relatively peaceful area of that country, and potentially the wider region. Helen Long reports.
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