Turkish Jets Hit Kurdish Rebel Targets again

Turkish warplanes have again struck Kurdish rebel targets in the southeast of the country and northern Iraq, the military said Wednesday.

"Sixteen targets were destroyed as a result of air strikes," the army said after the operations Tuesday that focused on Turkey's mountainous Daglica region near the Iraqi border as well as several regions in northern Iraq.

Similar strikes were carried out on Monday against the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), the day after an election that returned the Justice and Development Party (AKP) to power.

Four Kurdish militants died Tuesday after clashes with Turkish security forces in several parts of the restive southeast, security sources said.

Also Tuesday, Ankara ruled out any resumption of the peace process with the outlawed PKK after a wave of violence erupted in July, leaving a 2013 ceasefire in tatters.