Turkey staged retaliatory airstrikes against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq on Sunday as thousands of Turks attended rain-lashed funerals for 15 soldiers killed by the rebels in a cross-border attack. Public anger mounted in Turkey at the inability of civilian leaders to stop attacks by the rebel Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK. The group has waged a 24-year-old guerrilla war for greater autonomy for Turkey’s minority Kurds from bases in southeastern Turkey and northern Iraq. Full Story