By Xinhua
Ankara : Turkish warplanes Tuesday bombed camps of the outlawed Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) in northern Iraq, local CNN Turk TV channel reported.
The report quoted an Iraqi Kurdish official as saying that Turkish jets bombed PKK targets near the town of Hakurk, which was close to Iraq’s border with Iran and Turkey.
It said that the area had already been evacuated and there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage.
However, Turkish Security Forces or the government did not confirm the air attack.
The Turkish military has recently launched several cross-border attacks to fight against separatists of the banned Kurdish Workers ‘ Party (PKK), which use the Kurdish autonomous region in northern Iraq as a launch pad for attacks against Turkey.
The PKK, listed by the United States and Turkey as a terrorist group, took up arms against Turkey in 1984 with the aim of creating an ethnic homeland in the southeast. More than 30,000 people have been killed in the over-two-decade conflict