"It is supposed to end as it is going on for too long," Zebari told AFP.

"We have demanded strongly to end the incursion."

Turkish troops launched a ground offensive inside northern Iraq on February 21 targeting Kurdish rebels who have hideouts in the mountainous terrain.

Turkish officials have refused to give a clear timetable as to when the incursion, the second within three months, would end.

The rebel Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) has been fighting Ankara for a self-rule in southeastern Turkey since 1984.