Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday about detention of Turkish soldiers by U.S. soldiers in northern Iraq, ''it is an extremely distressing incident. Such a development should not have occurred. This attitude of an ally country against its ally cannot be explained with any political style.'' Responding questions of journalists, Prime Minister Erdogan said, ''unfortunately, such a development occurred yesterday. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has been monitoring the developments in coordination with the General Staff Chief General Hilmi Ozkok. Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah Gul called U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell on the phone. We requested the United States to release our soldiers as soon as possible. They told us that our soldiers were safe. We will inform you on new developments. '' Gul said, ''detention of eleven Turkish soldiers by U.S. soldiers in northern Iraq is totally an inappropriate incident.'' **U.S. Says Holding Troops in Iraq, Probably Turks!!!*** A U.S. military official confirmed on Sunday that U.S. forces in northern Iraq had detained several soldiers they 'believed' to be Turkish. Asked about accusations from Ankara that U.S. troops had seized Turkish special forces, the official said: "There was a raid. The U.S. military is still trying to determine their ethnicity but they are probably Turkish." Turkey's Hurriyet newspaper said around 100 U.S. soldiers grabbed the Turks in the northern city of Sulaimaniya on suspicion of planning an attack on the Kurdish governor in the oil-rich city of Kirkuk about 100 km (60 miles) away. Turkey's foreign minister dismissed the charge as "nonsense." **PHOTO CAPTION*** Turkey's prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan (R) and Turkish foreign minister Abdullah Gul (L) denied this. (AFP/file/Tarik Tinazay)