Turkish jets renew attacks on Iraqi border areas against PKK

Turkish fighter jets renewed air strikes targeting border areas in North Iraq following deadly ambush by PKK terrorists, APA reports quoting CNNturk. Jets taken off Diyarbakir air forces base at the moment carry out heavy bombings on the border areas against terrorist camps.

On early Thursday, Turkey’s General Staff said in a statement that its Air Forces’ planes conducted a successful offense on 60 targets of the PKK in northern Iraq Wednesday night.

The targets included those in the Qandil Mountain, Kharkurk, Avashin-Bashyan, Zap and Metina, said the General Staff, adding that "prior to the air offense, 168 targets in the Zap, Avashin- Bashyan and Kharkurk regions were shelled by heavy artillery.


/APA/