Turkey has 140,000 troops on Iraq border - Iraq

BAGHDAD, July 9 (Reuters) The Turkish army has 140,000 soldiers arrayed along its border with northern Iraq as part of a ''great mobilisation'', Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari said today.

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.

''There is a great mobilisation on Iraq's northern international border that the security services and intelligence (agencies) estimate at more than 140,000 military personnel with all sorts of equipment,'' Zebari told a news conference.

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