DIYARBAKIR - More than 100 people have died in two days of fighting between Turkish troops and Kurdish guerrillas that has spilled just across the border into northern Iraq, security officials said yesterday.
They said 68 Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) rebels died in the province of Hakkari after the guerrillas launched a rocket attack on Monday night. A further 25 were killed in separate fighting in the south-eastern province of Diyarbakir. Eleven troops and one member of an anti-rebel Kurdish militia also died in the clashes, the officials said.
