Turkey sends troops into Northern Iraq

The Turkish army sent soldiers about two miles into northern Iraq today, a spokesman for Kurdish security forces said.

The troops crossed into an area near the border with Iran, about 75 miles north of the city of Irbil, a spokesman for Kurdistan’s Peshmerga security forces said.

It was not immediately clear what time the incursion took place or whether the Turkish troops were still in Iraq.

On Sunday, Turkey conducted airstrikes against rebels from the Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK) in northern Iraq. As many as 50 fighter jets were involved in the attack, the biggest against the PKK in years.

The Iraqi parliament yesterday condemned the bombing, calling it an “outrageous” violation of Iraq’s sovereignty that killed innocent civilians.