Libya says Turkey forcing Kurds out

Libya has accused Turkey of provoking the flight of Turkish Kurds to Europe through a policy of what it called repression and extermination.

A commentary on Libya's state-run JANA news agency, said Turkey was bombing Kurdish villages on a daily basis to force the Kurds out of the country and prevent them from declaring an independent state.

A Turkish foreign ministry spokesman dismissed the accusations, which he said were not worth a serious response.

More than a thousand illegal immigrants, mainly Kurds from Turkey and northern Iraq, have arrived in Italy over the past two weeks.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service