The Turkish military said Friday that its fighter jets hit the positions of the banned Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) in northern Iraq late Thursday.
A statement of the Turkish General Staff posted on its website said the fighter jets bombed 16 PKK positions at Qandil Mountain in northern Iraq.
Turkey has conducted frequent air raids on suspected positions of the PKK in northern Iraq. In February, it also 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 southeast Turkey. Some 40,000 people have been killed in the over-two-decade conflict.
Source:Xinhua
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