Turkey 'neutralises' PKK group in northern Iraq

Turkey 'neutralises' PKK group in northern Iraq

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Ankara: The Turkish military said on Tuesday it had opened fire on 21 Kurdish PKK fighters trying to enter Turkey from northern Iraq.

The General Staff, in a statement on its Internet site, said its forces opened fire on the guerrillas late on Monday 3 km inside northern Iraq and most of them had been "neutralised".

It gave no further details, but "neutralised" generally means killed.

A spokesman for the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) denied any of its men had been killed. "Often, the Turkish exaggerate in these cases and hide their losses," Ahmad Danis said.

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