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US military says no reports of Turkish
operations in Iraqi Kurdistan
1.12.2007
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December 1, 2007
Baghdad, -- The US military in Baghdad said
on Saturday it had no reports of Turkish military
operations in Kurdistan region in 'northern Iraq'.
"We have nothing; we have no reports like that at
all," spokesman Major Winfield Danielson told AFP.
Asked if the US military would know if Turkish
troops had crossed the border, he replied, "I can't
answer that. I don't know if we would."
He added: "The Iraqi government and the Kurdistan
Regional Government would be the first to know about
something like this. Kurdistan is an autonomous
region."
Jabbar Yawar, spokesman of Kurdistan's Peshmerga
security forces, said: "I personally called all
commanders and officials on the border and I confirm
that there is no military incursion by the Turkish
army into the region's territories."
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The Turkish army said in
Ankara it inflicted "heavy
losses" on a group of around 50
members of the Turkey's armed Kurdish separatist
movement PKK in Kurdistan 'northern Iraq' on
Saturday.
Contacted in the Iraqi Kurdistan's capital of Erbil,
Fuad Hussein, chief of staff for Massoud Barzani,
the president of Iraq's Kurdistan region, did not
categorically confirm the strikes but said "it could
be artillery shelling."
www.ekurd.net
said there had been no
incursion by Turkish troops into the autonomous
Kurdistan region of northern Iraq.
AFP | Reuters
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