The Iraqi Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) has handed over three members of the banned Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) to Turkey, Turkey's semi-official Anatolia news agency reported on Friday.

The Sirnak Governor's Office in southeastern Turkey was quoted as saying that the three PKK members fled from the terrorist organization and surrendered to the KDP.

KDP handed over them to Turkish security forces in the Habur border crossing on Thursday, said the office.

The PKK, listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the United States and the European Union, launched an armed campaign for an ethnic homeland in the mainly Kurdish southeastern Turkey in 1984, sparking decades of strife that has claimed more than 30, 000 lives.

Source: Xinhua