( IHLAS ) - Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul denied Wednesday that Turkish troops had entered neighboring northern Iraq in a cross-border operation to hunt down separatist Kurdish rebels.
Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul denied Wednesday that Turkish troops had entered neighboring northern Iraq in a cross-border operation to hunt down separatist Kurdish rebels.
"There is no incursion into any other country at the moment," Gul told reporters here.
He was responding to a question on media reports that several thousand Turkish troops had crossed into the Kurdish-held autonomous enclave to crack down on Turkish Kurd rebels based there.