Turkish Jets Bomb Kurd Positions in Northern Iraq
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Turkish warplanes have carried out strikes on suspected Kurdish militant targets in northern Iraq, the army said on Sunday.
The general staff said on its website the air strikes had hit "nine targets belonging to the separatist terrorist organization" referring to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), on June 22-24.
The jets safely returned to their bases in Turkey, it said.
The air strikes are the second since a rebel attack on an army post near the Iraqi border on Tuesday killed eight Turkish soldiers, and wounded another 19.
Local officials said around 20 rebels were killed in the attack.
The PKK, listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey and much of the international community, took up arms in the Kurdish-majority southeast Turkey in 1984, sparking a conflict that has claimed some 45,000 lives.
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These Sunni crazies cannot let a day go by without killings! If they cannot find people from other sects and religions to kill, they kill their own. But guys don't think I am protesting the crazies killing other crazies. The less Sunni crazies there are, the easier is the job of the US and other nations to finish them off. 3ALEHOM
