A Kurdish female Peshmerga fighter carries her weapon while walking in the foothills of the Qandil Mountains located along the Iraq-Iran border, 05 May 2006. To rid Iraq of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) rebels, Ankara would have to launch an operation in the rugged Qandil Mountains located in the east of Iraqi Kurdish region. The massive mountains, located about 120-150 kilometers north of Arbil, the capital of autonomous Kurdish government of Iraq, stretch from the tip of southeastern Turkey along the border with Iran. Getty Images logo Getty Images 70 months ago

A Kurdish female Peshmerga fighter carries her weapon while walking in the foothills of the Qandil Mountains located along the Iraq-Iran border, 05 May 2006. To rid Iraq of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) rebels, Ankara would have to launch an operation in the rugged Qandil Mountains located in the east of Iraqi Kurdish region. The massive mountains, located about 120-150 kilometers north of Arbil, the capital of autonomous Kurdish government of Iraq, stretch from the tip of southeastern Turkey along the border with Iran.

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