Turkish helicopter gunships attack villages inside Iraq

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http://www.suntimes.com/news/world/647581,iraq111307.article

November 13, 2007
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS

SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq---- Turkish helicopter gunships attacked villages inside Iraq on Tuesday, Iraqi officials said.

Col. Hussein Tamir, an Iraqi Army officer who supervises border guards, said the airstrikes occurred before dawn on abandoned villages near Zakhu, an Iraqi Kurdish town near the border with Turkey. There were no casualties, he said. snip

A spokesman for the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, corroborated Tamir's account. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to media.