Air strikes: PKK denies Turkey killed 150 rebels

Arbil: Kurdish PKK rebels in northern Iraq on Saturday denied claims by the Turkish military that more than 150 of their fighters had been killed there in Turkish air strikes.

"There were not 150 PKK fighters killed. This is totally inaccurate," PKK spokesman Ahmad Danees told Reuters by satellite phone from a secret location in northern Iraq.

He said the air strikes had killed six Kurdish rebels from a different faction that is fighting Iran. The strikes took place near an area where the borders of Iraq, Turkey and Iran meet.
The Turkish military said on Saturday it had killed more than 150 Kurdish PKK rebels in a series of aerial bombings on Thursday and Friday.

Security forces in Iraq's largely autonomous Kurdistan region said they were not aware of any casualties.