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Mon 10 Oct 2007Turkish troops kill 20 rebels as Kurdish crisis deepensSome 8,000 Turkish troops backed by helicopter gunships killed 20 rebels from the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in the central eastern Turkish province of Tunceli yesterday, as tension continues to mount over a possible Turkish incursion into northern Iraq.Though a stronghold of the PKK, Tunceli is more than 500km northeast of Sirnak and Hakkari, the border provinces where most of the recent fighting between Turkish forces and the Kurdish separatists occurred.