By IRNA,
Ankara : Turkish warplanes have bombed Kurdish rebel bases in northern Iraq, the Turkish military said Sunday.
On Friday, 15 Turkish soldiers were killed and at least 20 wounded in an attack by Kurdish separatist rebels in the mountainous border area of eastern Turkey.
The planes bombed Saturday in Iraq’s Avasin Basyan region and returned safely to their bases, the Turkish military said.
The military’s deputy chief, meanwhile, accused leaders in northern Iraq of tolerating the rebels.
“We don’t receive any kind of support from the local administration in the northern part of Iraq,” General Hasan Igsiz said.
“Our expectation from them is to accept that the terrorist organization is a terrorist organization and eliminate the support provided to it.”
The soldiers were killed Friday night in an attack on the Aktutun border post in Semdinli, a district that borders Iran and Iraq.
23 Kurdish fighters of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, known as the PKK, were also killed.