Turkey slams Iraqi Kurds of aiding PKK

ANKARA (AFP) - The Turkish military Sunday accused Iraqi Kurds of aiding Turkish Kurdish rebels holed up in their autonomous enclave in northern Iraq after the militants killed at least 15 soldiers in a daytime attack near the border.

The charge came from the deputy chief of the army as top government and military officials joined thousands of mourners across the country for the funerals of the soldiers slain in Friday’s attack by Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) rebels on a military outpost in the mountainous southeast.