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Skirmishes continue along Turkey-Iraq border

(13 Oct 2007) SHOTLIST 1. Wide of smoke rising from mountainside on the Turkish side of Mount Cudi 2. Zoom out and pan from smoke on mountainside to nearby houses 3. Various of a Turkish military post on Mount Cudi 4. SOUNDBITE: (Turkish) local resident, name not given, vox pop: "We heard a noise coming from around there. I think they fired a mortar and it exploded. That's it." (Question: Was it a tank fire or mortar?) "I'm guessing mortar." 5. Various of tank at military post on Mount Cudi STORYLINE Residents of a village on Mount Cudi, along the Turkish-Iraqi border said they believed an area near their village had been hit by mortar fire on Saturday. "We heard a noise coming from around there," a villager told AP Television "I think they fired a mortar and it exploded." When asked whether he thought the explosion was a result of tank fire or mortar, the villager said he believed it was mortar fire. AP Television cannot independently verify this information. Footage shot by an AP Television crew showed thick smoke rising from a mountainside on Mount Cudi which straddles the border between Turkey's south-eastern Sirnak province and the autonomous Kurdistan region in northern Iraq. Tensions between Turkey and Iraq have grown in recent days over attacks by Kurdish rebels on Turkish soldiers - which have left 15 troops dead over the past week. Turkey's parliament was expected to approve a government request to authorise a campaign - targeting bases of the rebel Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, in northern Iraq - as early as next week. The United States opposes a possible Turkish incursion into northern Iraq, which is one of the country's few relatively stable areas, and urged a diplomatic solution between Iraq and Turkey to the problem. The PKK has fought the Turkish government since 1984 - seeking autonomy for Turkey's ethnic Kurds - in a conflict that has killed thousands of people. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...