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    Turkish Troops Withdraw from Iraqi Kurdistan

    Yesterday, Defense Secretary Robert Gates visited Ankara , asking a swift end to Turkey's latest military campaign in northern Iraq. He got no timetable and few reassurances in public, but today Turkey pulled out.  Semih Idiz is columnist at the Turkish newspaper Milliyet.

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    By Warren Olney • May 12, 2014 • 1 min read

    Yesterday, Defense Secretary Robert Gates visited Ankara, asking a swift end to Turkey's latest military campaign in northern Iraq. He got no timetable and few reassurances in public, but today Turkey pulled out. Semih Idiz is columnist at the Turkish newspaper Milliyet.

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      Warren Olney

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      Semih Idiz

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    The full episode

    1 of 3
    The Housing Crisis Is Eating America's Economy
    1. 1:43Turkish Troops Withdraw from Iraqi KurdistanYou’re reading this
    2. 7:19The Housing Crisis Is Eating America's Economy
    3. 40:26The Life and Death of Sister Dorothy Stang
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