Iraq's interior minister arrived in Turkey on Tuesday to discuss Turkish concerns over separatist Kurdish rebels holed up in bases in northern Iraq, the Associated Press reported. Turkey is seeking an anti-terrorism cooperation agreement with Iraq that would engage its neighbor in cracking down on the rebels of the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, which has been attacking targets in Turkey from bases in northern Iraq. On Tuesday, a soldier was killed and four others were wounded when suspected Kurdish rebels detonated a bomb that was placed inside a van, at the entrance of a Turkish military outpost in the southeastern province of Tunceli, the private Dogan news agency reported. A soldier and four Kurdish rebels were also killed in two days of fighting in the province of Sirnak, near the border with Iraq, according to the agency and the military. «We cannot accept any person or group that is against Turkey,» Iraqi Interior Minister Jawad al-Bolani told reporters on arrival at Ankara's airport. «We are here to take up every issue.»
