Kurdish militants killed 13 Turkish soldiers in a clash in the country’s southeast, and troops responded by shelling an area near Iraq to try to stop the militants from escaping across the border, the military said.

Ntvmsnbc – 08 October 2007 Turkey has been pressing Iraq and the United States to hit the bases of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, in northern Iraq, and has considered a unilateral military operation across the border to root out the militants.