By Prensa Latina
Baghdad : The Turkish army bombed Thursday alleged positions of the Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK) in the northern Iraqi mountainous zone, security force sources reported.
Turkey has deployed thousands of soldiers along the border with this Arab country, where the PKK has bases and refuges.
The troops sent by Ankara have attacked those targets through small-scale operations in the country’s interior zone, and also with air actions.
“They started strong attacks at about 11:00 local time. We do not know if there are victims. Almost nobody was in the area, except some PKK members,” Jabbar Yawar, spokesman from the Iraqi security forces in the Kurdish region, stated.
Yawar said that bombings convulsed the remote mountainous region of Hakurk, but no independent source confirmed that statement.
Turkish authorities affirmed two days ago they prepared a land operation against the rebels, blamed for the death of nearly 40,000 people since 1984, when operations began in the southeastern neighboring State.
Turkish war planes also bombed this month 70 alleged PKK targets in the Iraqi territory, one of the most important operations from those executed against that Party.