By IRNA,
Ankara : Turkish air strikes in northern Iraq this week left more than 150 Kurdish rebels dead, the Turkish army said on Saturday.
“According to initial estimates, this operation allowed us to neutralize more than 150 terrorists,” the army said in a statement.
A PKK spokesman said that only six rebels were killed and they were from a different faction.
Turkey has staged several cross-border raids into northern Iraq since last February in pursuit of the rebels.
The strikes, which began on Thursday and ended on Friday, were carried out against PKK guerrillas based in the Qandil Mountains in northern Iraq, the Turkish army said.
The Turkish warplanes hit 43 targets including PKK posts in Qandil area were destroyed during the operation, said the Turkish army statement.