Sunday, February 24, 2008

PKK 'shoots down Turkish chopper'

BBC

Kurdish rebels say they have shot down a Turkish Cobra attack helicopter during clashes in northern Iraq.

Ahmed Danees, head of foreign relations for the Kurdistan Workers' Party, the PKK, made the claim - which has not been independently verified.

"At 6 pm (1500 GMT) yesterday, our fighters shot down a Cobra helicopter," he told Reuters news agency.

Turkey sent its forces across the border into northern Iraq to take on the rebels late on Thursday.

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