Istanbul, Turkey (CNN) -- Hundreds of Turkish soldiers have completed their withdrawal from Iraqi territory, a day after the Turkish military announced it sent troops into Iraq in "hot pursuit" of Kurdish rebels, Turkish government officials said on Thursday.
"Our pullback has been completed," said Burak Ozugergin, spokesman for Turkey's Foreign Ministry.
The Turkish armed forces issued a statement on its website on Wednesday that one army sergeant was killed after Kurdish rebels attached a Turkish border post along the border with Iraq.
After a battle that lasted hours, the Turkish military said it sent three commando divisions and a special forces brigade two or three kilometers into Iraqi territory in pursuit of the rebels.
Turkish warplanes later carried out a series of airstrikes against suspected rebel targets in Iraq. The Turkish military claimed to have killed four rebel fighters during the battle.
