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Turkish Airstrikes Hit 12 Targets North of Iraq

  • September, 06, 2016 - 10:36
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Turkish Airstrikes Hit 12 Targets North of Iraq

TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Turkish warplanes destroyed 12 targets in northern Iraq late Monday, the military said, striking a region where Ankara says the leadership of Turkey's outlawed Kurdish militant group PKK is based.

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The military statement said the sites hit were in the Metina and Hakurk regions of northern Iraq, but did not give further details, Reuters reported. 

In the past, such strikes have been aimed at targets Turkey says are linked to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).

Turkish military forces have been conducting ground operations as well as airstrikes against PKK positions in Turkey’s troubled southeastern border region and Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region over the past year.

The campaign began following the July 2015 bombing in the southern Turkish town of Suruc, which claimed more than 30 civilian lives. Turkish officials held the Daesh terrorist group responsible for the act of terror.

The PKK has been fighting a three-decades-old insurgency against Ankara to demand autonomy in Turkey's southeast region.

 
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