Turkey says air force kills 13 in north Iraq air strike
Turkish jets struck a target in northern Iraq on Wednesday, killing 13 suspected Kurdish PKK fighters, the armed forces said in a statement. “In an air strike in northern Iraq, 13 armed members of a separatist terrorist organization preparing for an attack were neutralized,” the statement said, using a term which Turkey uses to describe […]Turkish jets struck a target in northern Iraq on Wednesday, killing 13 suspected Kurdish PKK fighters, the armed forces said in a statement.
“In an air strike in northern Iraq, 13 armed members of a separatist terrorist organization preparing for an attack were neutralized,” the statement said, using a term which Turkey uses to describe Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants.
The PKK has been waging an insurgency in Turkey’s mainly Kurdish southeast since the 1980s, but also has bases across the border in northern Iraq which Turkey regularly targets.
