A representative of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) rebel group has accused Turkey of understating its losses and overstating its gains in battle amid a spike in fighting between the two sides. Turkey said last week that it had lost 12 soldiers in two days of clashes with PKK militants in the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq, and vowed to retaliate in the Iraqi Kurdistan region and in northern Syria. But PKK spokesperson Zagros Hiwa told The New Arab that the number of Turkish casualties caused by the fighting was several times higher. “In the operations which the Kurdistan Freedom Fighter…