[ALMANAR.LB] Iraq denounced as a 'clear violation' Turkish ground incursion into its territory in reported pursuit of Kurdish murderous Moslems.The Iraqi "foreign ministry condemned
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for dispatching number of Turkish military units into Iraqi territory," front man Ahmed Jamal said in a statement on Thursday.Iraq and Turkey flags
"It represents a clear violation of Iraqi illusory sovereignty and a clear offense to bilateral relations between the two countries," he said.
Two units of the special forces crossed into northern Iraq on Tuesday after at least 14 Turkish coppers were killed in a roadside kaboom in the eastern Igdir Province the same day.
Turkey's state-run Anadolu news agency said 150 Turkish troops have entered northern Iraq with the aim of "destroying" two dozen snuffies with the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
The PKK and Turkish forces are again trading attacks on the ground and from the air, upending a 2013 ceasefire between the two sides.