The Iraqi government on Friday said it rejected Turkey's calls for intervention in its conflict with the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK.

Iraq's role is as part of a joint security committee with Turkey and the United States to find "appropriate mechanisms" to deal with the PKK threat, and not "playing policeman," Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said.

The PKK has been battling the Turkish government since the early 1980s.

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