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Revue de Presse-Prèss Review-Berhevoka Çapê-Rivista Stampa-Dentro de la Prensa-Baszn Özeti
The PDK has supporteci the Ankara regime since 1997 in its campaign against the Turkistan Workers Party (PKK)
and the Turkish military frequently mounts operations against PKK units in the north of Iraq.
The PKK ended its armed conflict against Turkey in 1999 and retreated to northern Iraq. But Turkey has played
down the peace bid as a ploy, urging the rebels either to surrender or face the army. Turkish authorities had long
accused the PUl< of supporting the Workers Party, but the PUl< cited recent clashes between PKK resistance fighters
and its own guerrillas to deny this.
The skirmishes come after a long period of close ties between the PUl< and the PKK, which has waged a IS-year
armed campaign against Turkey for Kurdish self-rule in the country's southeast.
The PUl< has accused the PKK rebels of attacking its positions in a bid to destabilise the Kurdish-held
enclave.
On Sunday, Ecevit confirmed that Turkish troops had led an incursion into northern Iraq to provide technical help
for the PΠand PDK in its efforts to fight Pl