A group of Turkish troops has crossed into northern Iraq, officials in Iraq have said.
Some 300 lightly-armed soldiers entered Iraq overnight and moved up to three kilometres (two miles) inside, a senior Iraqi military source told Reuters.
So far Ankara has not confirmed the reports.
Turkey has warned it could deploy its troops Turkish army fires on PKK in Iraq ...
Two dead in Iraq helicopter crash ...
Two Sistani aides killed in Iraq ... in northern Iraq to fight PKK Kurdish rebels who have bases there.
Turkish warplanes bombed suspected PKK (Kurdistan's Worker's Party) bases in northern Iraq over the weekend.
Iraqi officials have said bombs hit 10 villages, killing one woman, while the PKK has reported seven deaths.
In October, Turkey's parliament voted to allow the military to launch operations into Iraq to combat the PKK, which had stepped up attacks in Turkey.
Ankara has massed up to 100,000 troops near the mountainous border with northern Iraq, backed by tanks, artillery and warplanes.
(BBC)
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