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DIRECTION: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; TEXT-KASHIDA: 0%; mso-layout-grid-align: none&quot;><SPAN style=&quot;FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-US&quot;><FONT size=2>Turkey&amp;nbsp;tonight appeared to&amp;nbsp;ignore warnings from the United States and Europe and said it planned to send troops into northern Iraq.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = &quot;urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office&quot; /><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>&#13;&#10;<P class=MsoNormal style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; DIRECTION: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; TEXT-KASHIDA: 0%; mso-layout-grid-align: none&quot;><SPAN style=&quot;FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-US&quot;><FONT size=2>&amp;nbsp;<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>&#13;&#10;<P class=MsoNormal style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; DIRECTION: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; TEXT-KASHIDA: 0%; mso-layout-grid-align: none&quot;><SPAN style=&quot;FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-US&quot;><FONT size=2>“Turkey would make its own decision,” Justice Minister Cemil Cicek told reporters after a cabinet meeting.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>&#13;&#10;<P class=MsoNormal style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; 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DIRECTION: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; TEXT-KASHIDA: 0%; mso-layout-grid-align: none&quot;><SPAN style=&quot;FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-US&quot;><FONT size=2>The European Commission has warned Ankara that sending its troops into northern Iraq could “complicate” its chances to join the European Union.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>&#13;&#10;<P class=MsoNormal style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; DIRECTION: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; TEXT-KASHIDA: 0%; mso-layout-grid-align: none&quot;><SPAN style=&quot;FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-US&quot;><FONT size=2>&amp;nbsp;<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>&#13;&#10;<P class=MsoNormal style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; DIRECTION: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; TEXT-KASHIDA: 0%; mso-layout-grid-align: none&quot;><SPAN style=&quot;FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-US&quot;><FONT size=2>&quot;If Turkish troops cross the border, it would be a very serious act which would contradict a whole series of undertakings by the Turkish government,&quot; European Commission President Romano Prodi told the Italian Catholic television Sat 2000. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>&#13;&#10;<P class=MsoNormal style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; DIRECTION: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; TEXT-KASHIDA: 0%; mso-layout-grid-align: none&quot;><SPAN style=&quot;FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-US&quot;><FONT size=2>&amp;nbsp;<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>&#13;&#10;<P class=MsoNormal style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; DIRECTION: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; TEXT-KASHIDA: 0%; mso-layout-grid-align: none&quot;><SPAN style=&quot;FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-US&quot;><FONT size=2>Turkey wants to establish up a 20-kilometre-deep safety zone inside Iraqi territory, but the Kurdish faction who currently controls the territory has threatened to resist such an incursion.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>&#13;&#10;<P class=MsoNormal style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; DIRECTION: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; TEXT-KASHIDA: 0%; mso-layout-grid-align: none&quot;><SPAN dir=rtl></SPAN><SPAN lang=AR-SA dir=rtl style=&quot;FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-US&quot;><SPAN dir=rtl></SPAN><SPAN style=&quot;mso-spacerun: yes&quot;><FONT size=2>&amp;nbsp; </FONT></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN dir=ltr></SPAN><SPAN style=&quot;FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-US&quot;><SPAN dir=ltr></SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>&#13;&#10;<P class=MsoNormal style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; DIRECTION: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; TEXT-KASHIDA: 0%; mso-layout-grid-align: none&quot;><SPAN style=&quot;FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-US&quot;><FONT size=2>In the latest American warning, Secretary of State Colin Powell said Monday there was no current need for Turkish troops to cross the border. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>&#13;&#10;<P class=MsoNormal style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; DIRECTION: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; TEXT-KASHIDA: 0%; mso-layout-grid-align: none&quot;><SPAN style=&quot;FONT-FAMILY: Arial; 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DIRECTION: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; TEXT-KASHIDA: 0%; mso-layout-grid-align: none&quot;><SPAN style=&quot;FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-US&quot;><FONT size=2>Washington wants to avoid any trouble between Turkish forces and Kurdish groups at a time when its own troops are preparing for an attack on Baghdad-controlled oil towns of Kirkuk and Mosul. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>&#13;&#10;<P class=MsoNormal style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; DIRECTION: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; TEXT-KASHIDA: 0%; mso-layout-grid-align: none&quot;><SPAN style=&quot;FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-US&quot;><FONT size=2>&amp;nbsp;<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>&#13;&#10;<P class=MsoNormal style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; DIRECTION: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; TEXT-KASHIDA: 0%; mso-layout-grid-align: none&quot;><SPAN style=&quot;FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-US&quot;><FONT size=2>Cicek said Ankara was determined to dispatch its forces over the border to avoid a repeat of the scenario at the end of the first Gulf War in 1991.</FONT></SPAN></P>&#13;&#10;<P class=MsoNormal style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; 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