By Xinhua,
Ankara : The Turkish military said Saturday that its jets destroyed nine shelters, three equipment storage facilities and four other targets which belonging to the outlawed Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK) during the latest operation.
In a statement, the Turkish General Staff also revealed that its Thursday air strike also hit a group of PKK militants planning to cross the border into Turkey.
On Thursday, Turkish jets launched the air strike against the PKK targets based in north Iraq’s Hakurk region at 11 a.m. local time (0800 GMT).
The Turkish military has periodically bombed and shelled suspected PKK positions in Turkish-Iraqi border area during the past few months after it launched an eight-day ground incursion into Iraq in February.
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.