Turkish Jets Bomb PKK Targets in Northern Iraq

Turkey has for four months been waging a relentless campaign against the PKK in the country's southeast and in northern Iraq. | Photo: AFP

Published 21 November 2015

The Turkish military carried out a bombing campaign on Kurdish forces in Northern Iraq Friday night.

Turkish warplanes launched airstrikes in Northern Iraq on Friday night, destroying shelters and supply points of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).

A military statement on Saturday said the overnight airstrikes targeted the Qandil mountains where the PKK's leadership is based.

The military did not give further details but the state-run Anatolia news agency said the operation involved 22 fighter jets and that 23 targets were hit.

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Turkey has been striking PKK targets in northern Iraq and southeast Turkey since July.

A two-year cease-fire and peace talks between the Turkish state and the PKK lie in tatters after the Turkish government stepped up violent repression against the Kurds.

The Iraqi Kurds, who run a semi-autonomous region in the north of the country under the Kurdish Regional Government, are also under attack by the Islamic State group.

Kurdish people are spread throughout Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran.