With Turkey's founding father Kemal Ataturk guiding school children to write "Long live republic" in a poster in the background, unseen, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses a meeting in Ankara, Monday, April 9, 2007. Erdogan warned Iraqi Kurds against interfering in Turkey's Kurdish-majority southeast, saying "the price for them will be very high." Erdogan was reacting to comments by Iraqi Kurdish leader Massoud Barzani who said Iraqi Kurds would retaliate to any Turkish interference in northern Iraq by stirring up trouble in Turkey's southeast. AP Photo logo AP Photo 34 months ago

With Turkey's founding father Kemal Ataturk guiding school children to write "Long live republic" in a poster in the background, unseen, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses a meeting in Ankara, Monday, April 9, 2007. Erdogan warned Iraqi Kurds against interfering in Turkey's Kurdish-majority southeast, saying "the price for them will be very high." Erdogan was reacting to comments by Iraqi Kurdish leader Massoud Barzani who said Iraqi Kurds would retaliate to any Turkish interference in northern Iraq by stirring up trouble in Turkey's southeast.

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