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The Turkish Armed Forces withdraw from northern Iraq after assisting the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the Iraqi Kurdish Civil War.
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Combined military forces of Turkey
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Ba'athist Iraq
Iraqi state from 1968 to 2003
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Operation Hammer (1997)
Turkish military move against Kurdish terrorists in Iraq
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Political party in Iraqi Kurdistan
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Iraqi Kurdish Civil War
Kurdish internecine conflict (1994–1997)
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