Kurd leader visits refugees fleeing Turkish attack

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Source: Reuters

BAGHDAD, Dec 23 (Reuters) - Iraqi Kurdish leader Masoud Barzani visited refugees on Sunday that had fled border areas of northern Iraq after Turkish air strikes pounded areas close to their villages late on Saturday.

Barzani, the president of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region, strongly condemned the attacks and renewed calls for a peaceful solution.

"These daily strikes are unacceptable ... Their goal is not only the PKK but the whole idea of an autonomous Kurdish region," he told a group of families, in comments broadcast on his party's Kurdistan TV channel.

"This problem is not solved militarily and we are prepared for all peaceful solutions. I have come here to thank you for your patience and assure you that we will rebuild the border areas and the situation will not remain this way," he said.

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