move out of Iraq Kurdistan to prevent Turkish
air strikes against them from causing civilian
casualties ,the region's leadership said on Saturday..
"The PKK Kurdistan workers'party must keep
the battlefield away from the Kurdistan region
in order for civilians not to become victims of
this war ,'the office of the region's president
Massud Barzani said in a statement.
Turkey has carried out hundreds of raids against
the Kurdish rebel groups mountain bases on
either side of the Iraq border.
The PKK itself has admitted to only a handful
of death in it's ranks but the official Turkish
news agency Anatolia on Saturday put the
figure at around 260 ,although it gave no source.
Several civilian have been killed and wounded
in the air campaign,which Ankara launched
a week ago following a wave of attacks in Turkey.
Barzani's Kurdistan Democratic Party has often
been odds with the PKK but has long allowed
its fighters to take shelter from the Turkish
army in mountain regions on the Iraq side of the
border,. AFP
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