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The arrest comes after the PKK attacked Turkish defence company TUSAS in Ankara last week, killing five.
Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, reiterated his readiness to resolve the conflict through peaceful means with Turkey.
Iraq has officially banned the separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party - designated by Ankara as a terrorist group - as it seeks closer ties with Turkey.
Turkey has carried out airstrikes against alleged PKK militants in north Iraq, weeks after Turkish President Erdogan visited the country.
A senior PKK commander has been killed in a Turkish drone strike on the Sinjar region of northern Iraq
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Turkey has launched airstrikes against PKK positions in Iraq after a Turkish soldier was killed and four more were injured.
The attack against TUSAS comes amid signs of a renewed effort to bring an end to the conflict between the PKK and Turkish state.
Both Turkey and the PKK have been accused of inflating casualty numbers for the opposing side in an on-off war that began in 1984.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday called for retaliation against 'terrorists' in northern Iraq and Syria.
Over 100 people with suspected links to the Kurdish PKK group have been arrested in Turkey following the Ankara bombing on Sunday.