Turkish jets hit PKK targets in N.Iraq-army sources

by 158 | December 28, 2008 at 01:18 pm

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This is becoming routine. It
will be interesting to see if
there is as much of an uproar
in the Arab world about this as
there was about Israeli strikes
in Gaza, for the same reasons.

Turkish warplanes bombed Kurdish guerrilla targets in northern Iraq on Saturday and Sunday, Turkish army sources said.

Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) targets in the Hakurke region of northern Iraq were hit on Saturday night and several other targets near the Iraqi-Turkish border were bombed on Sunday afternoon, the sources said.

The strikes in a mountainous border area claimed no civilian casualties, said Lieutenant-Colonel Ihsan Kamal, commander of the border guards' operation room in Iraq's largely autonomous Kurdistan region.

"This is becoming routine, Turkish warplanes targeting the border area.