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DECEMBER 8 2008 12:00h
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Ruz Walat, an official with the Kurdistan Workers Party said the ceasefire for the separatist group would last until Saturday.
Ruz Walat, an official with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), said the ceasefire for the separatist group, which has fought for years with Turkish forces in northern Iraq and southeastern Turkey, would last until Saturday.
"PKK fighters will stop attacks inside Turkey, but if the Turkish army does not respect the ceasefire then we will fight back", he added.
Turkish forces have routinely bombed and shelled remote PKK areas in the mountains of northern Iraq, from which rebels have launched attacks into Turkey.
The PKK, which the United States and European Union deem a terrorist organisation, claimed responsibility for detonating a section of the Kirkuk-Ceyhan oil pipeline between Iraq and Turkey last month.
Also last month, U.S., Turkish and Iraqi officials held talks in Baghdad on how to restrain PKK activities.
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