Turkey to terget new town in Syria: Erdogan

ISTANBUL: President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday that Turkey had begun operations in Iraq's Sinjar region, an area where it has threatened a military incursion, two days after sources said Kurdish PKK militants would withdraw from the area.

"We said we would go into Sinjar. Now operations have begun there. The fight is internal and external," Erdogan told a crowd in the Black Sea province of Trabzon, without elaborating on what operations he was referring to. Iraq's Joint Operations Command denied that

any foreign forces had crossed the border into Iraq.