Kurdish PKK guerrillas said on Sunday they had shot down a Turkish Cobra attack helicopter during clashes in northern Iraq on Saturday.
"At 6 p.m. (1500 GMT) yesterday, our fighters shot down a Cobra helicopter," Ahmed Danees, head of foreign relations for the separatist Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), told Reuters by telephone.
He gave no details of casualties but said more information would be released later.
On Saturday, Danees said PKK fighters had killed 22 Turkish soldiers since Turkey began a cross-border offensive into Iraq's largely autonomous Kurdistan region on Thursday evening.
Turkey's military General Staff said in a statement on its Web site that only seven Turkish troops had been killed.
Verifying information about casualties is difficult as the fighting is taking place in an inaccessible mountain region.
"At 6 p.m. (1500 GMT) yesterday, our fighters shot down a Cobra helicopter," Ahmed Danees, head of foreign relations for the separatist Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), told Reuters by telephone.
He gave no details of casualties but said more information would be released later.
On Saturday, Danees said PKK fighters had killed 22 Turkish soldiers since Turkey began a cross-border offensive into Iraq's largely autonomous Kurdistan region on Thursday evening.
Turkey's military General Staff said in a statement on its Web site that only seven Turkish troops had been killed.
Verifying information about casualties is difficult as the fighting is taking place in an inaccessible mountain region.