Turkish warplanes have bombed 13 targets of the outlawed Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) in northern Iraq late Wednesday, a Turkish military statement said on Thursday.
The Turkish jets attacked PKK hideouts in the Zap region near the Turkish border late Wednesday, said the statement posted on the military Website, adding that there was no immediate information on casualties.
The Turkish military has periodically bombed and shelled suspected PKK positions in Turkish-Iraqi border area during the past few months. In February, it launched an eight-day ground incursion into Iraq.
The PKK, listed by the United States and Turkey as a terrorist group, took up arms in 1984 with the aim of creating an ethnic homeland in the southeast Turkey. About 40,000 people have been killed in the over-two-decade conflict.
Source:Xinhua
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