Turkish jets attack PKK hideout

29/07/2008| IslamWeb

Turkish warplanes have attacked a hideout of the rebel Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) in Northern Iraq, the Turkish army says.

Turkish jets destroyed a PKK base in the operation, killing an unspecified number of militants, the army said.

The militants were based at a cave in the Qandil mountain region of Iraq.

The airstrikes come two days after a bomb attack in the Turkish capital, Istanbul, killed 17 people. The Turkish government blamed Kurdish militants.

Turkey accuses PKK rebels of using hideouts in northern Iraq as part of their campaign for self-rule in mainly Kurdish south-east Turkey.

Some 40,000 people have been killed since the PKK launched its campaign in 1984.         

 

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PKK destroyed hideout

 

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