Sirnak, Turkey, Nov. 26 (Xinhua) -- Leaders of the outlawed Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) are afraid of being captured in northern Iraq as the measures against the PKK are going on in the region, reported a Xinhua correspondent at the Turkish-Iraqi border on Monday.

　　PKK members, who fear of being captured in an operation possibly to be launched by Turkey with Iraq's Kurdish Democratic Party (KDP), are still leaving camps in northern Iraq and have been separated to small groups for going to the inside of Iraq.

　　Some main PKK members left camps at the areas of Qandil, Metina, Gare, Hakurk in northern Iraq and went to more secure areas along the Iraqi, Iranian and Turkish border.

　　Roads which are going to the PKK camps are being blocked and PKK areas are now under control of Iraq's special forces.

　　Turkey has massed up to 100,000 troops along the mountainous border with Iraq in preparation for the cross-border operation to crush about 3,000 strong PKK rebels in northern Iraq, which was approved by the Turkish parliament last month.

　　The PKK took up arms against Turkey in 1984 with the aim of creating an ethnic homeland in the southeast. More than 30,000people have been killed in more than two decades conflict.