Turkish fighter jets have bombed Kurdish rebel locations in northern Iraq for the second time in eight days, the army said on Sunday. Turkey has escalated its attacks on the outlawed Kurdistan Worker's Party in recent months.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan voiced regret Friday after the country’s military acknowledged that its deadly air strike on Kurdish civilians on the Iraqi border had been an operational mistake.
Kurdish separatists in Turkey Friday called for an "uprising" following a Turkish military air strike on suspected PKK militants who were in fact civilians. The PKK is considered a terrorist organisation by the Turkish government.
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Turkish jets bombed camps belonging to the rebel separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, in northern Iraq overnight in response to a series of attacks on Turkish military posts Wednesday that left 24 soldiers dead.
In Turkey, Kurdish rebels have recently stepped up attacks. Last week they targeted several police stations in the largely Kurdish south-east of the country. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said Ankara is running out of patience with the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, which has been waging a violent campaign for autonomy in the south-east since 1984.
Turkish warplanes attacked Kurdish rebel targets in northern Iraq for a third night, the military said on Saturday. The cross-border raids are the latest escalation in a 27-year-old conflict caused by failed efforts to create a negotiated settlement.
Turkish artillery hit 168 Kurdish guerrilla sites in northern Iraq and subsequently bombed another 60 targets, the Turkish military said in a statement on Thursday, following a deadly Kurdistan Workers Party attack on Turkish forces.
Thirteen Turkish soldiers were killed and seven others wounded in fierce clashes with Kurdish rebels in southeastern Turkey on Thursday. Kurdish rebels periodically cross the border to stage attacks in their battle for autonomy.
Kurdish news agency Firat reported Monday that Turkey's Kurdish separatist organisation, the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), were not responsible for Sunday's suicide bombing in Istanbul which wounded 32 people.
