Turkey and Iraq target rebels

Turkey and Iraq agreed to try to root out a Kurdish rebel group from northern Iraq, but Iraq's prime minister said he would not sign an agreement implementing the promise until it was put to his parliament.

"We have reached an agreement to spend all efforts to end the presence of the Kurdistan Workers Party or PKK in Iraq," Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan told a news conference together with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki.

Erdogan said the leaders signed a memorandum of understanding and agreed to speed up work to finalise a counterterrorism agreement to combat the Kurdish guerrillas who have escalated their attacks on Turkey from bases in northern Iraq.

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