11.  PKK guerrillas use bases in northern Iraq to launch attacks against Turkish forces across the border.

12.  A Kurdish rebel group threatened to renew its war against Turkish forces if the government executes imprisoned leader Abdullah Ocalan, a report said Monday.

13.  A top aide to Ciller said Turkish forces would withdraw once guerrilla bases are destroyed and arms and supplies captured.

14.  All efforts to reunify the island have foundered and Turkish forces still occupy the north.

15.  An Iraqi Kurdish opposition group, the Kurdistan Democratic Party, or KDP, joined the Turkish forces in its fight against the PKK.

16.  At a Cabinet meeting late Monday, ministers signed a decree authorizing the government to send Turkish forces to Afghanistan, daily Hurriyet reported Tuesday.

17.  But badly equipped, unprepared Turkish forces turned it into a frustrating nine-month battle of attrition fought in a spectacular clifftop setting.

18.  But in a statement, the rebels said Soysal was handed over to Turkish forces by Moldova and had been under arrest for about a week.

19.  But rebels said they would continue to fight Turkish forces.

20.  But Greek Cypriot military sources say that the government bought two or three Russian-made helicopters for defense against Turkish forces in the occupied north of the island.