Turkish warplanes bombed the targets of the outlawed Kurdish
Workers' Party (PKK) in northern Iraq early on Sunday, the Turkish
military said in a statement.
The statement issued by the Turkish General Staff posted on its
Website said that the warplanes hit PKK targets in regions
bordering the Turkish territories as well as in Qandil Mountain,
which is further way from the frontier.
The Turkish warplanes bombed the PKK targets in Iraq at 01:00
local time (GMT 2300 Saturday) in large scale areas, said the
statement, adding all planes returned to their bases later.
The Turkish military has launched several cross-border attacks
recently in a bid to fight separatist PKK rebels, who use northern
Iraq as a launch pad for attacks against Turkey.
The PKK, listed by the United States and Turkey as a terrorist
group, took up arms against Turkey in 1984 with the aim of creating
an ethnic homeland in southeast of Turkey. More than 30, 000 people
have been killed in the over-two-decade conflict.
(Xinhua News Agency December 16, 2007)
