By Xinhua
Ankara: Turkish warplanes Wednesday struck eight suspected hideouts of the banned Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK) in northern Iraq, said a statement of the Turkish General Staff.
The statement, posted on the Turkish General Staff’s website, said the warplanes hit eight caves and other hideouts used by the PKK rebels in an “effective pinpoint operation”.
The air strike comes after a major military operation Dec 16 in northern Iraq that killed over 150 PKK militants.
In another statement issued Tuesday, the Turkish General Staff said Turkish warplanes carried out strikes at villages near the border in the Qandil Mountains, killing one woman and wounding six others.
The Turkish military has launched several cross-border attacks to fight against separatist PKK rebels, who use northern Iraq as a launch pad for attacks against it.
The PKK – listed by the US and Turkey as a terrorist group – took up arms against Turkey in 1984 with an aim of creating an ethnic homeland in the southeast.
More than 30,000 people have been killed in the two-decade old conflict.