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Turkish military launches large air campaign on PKK targets in northern Iraq

The Turkish military has launched a wide-scale air campaign on the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) targets in northern Iraq. The operation which started on Feb. 3 continued on Feb. 4, military sources have told Hürriyet. Unmanned areal vehicles, fuel feed planes and AWACS surveillance jets accompanied Turkish Air Force F-4E and F-16 jets during strikes on […]

Hurriyet Daily News reports:

The Turkish military has launched a wide-scale air campaign on the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) targets in northern Iraq. The operation which started on Feb. 3 continued on Feb. 4, military sources have told Hürriyet. Unmanned areal vehicles, fuel feed planes and AWACS surveillance jets accompanied Turkish Air Force F-4E and F-16 jets during strikes on the PKK targets in the neighboring country, the sources said.

Some 40 jets that took of for bases in Diyarbakır, Malatya, Bandırma, Ankara-Akıncı and Merzifon his some 100 targets on the Kandil Mountain, known as ground for the PKK headquarters, on Feb. 3 before they bombed four other points else than Kandil the next day, they said.