The state-run Anadolu Agency said as many as 28 F-16 jets raided 65 Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, targets in northern Iraq, including shelters and ammunition depots on Friday.
A day earlier, as many as 80 jets hit more than 100 targets, the agency said. Anadolu claimed some 260 PKK rebels were killed and 400 were wounded since the start of the raids.
The PKK has not reported rebel casualties. Turkey's allies have urged it to resume a Kurdish peace process.
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier told the daily Bild the Turkish government "should not tear down the bridges to the Kurds that have been arduously built in the last few years."
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PKK leader: Turkey is protecting IS by attacking Kurds...
ReplyDeleteThe man leading the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) has accused Turkey of trying to protect the Islamic State group by attacking Kurdish fighters.
Cemil Bayik told the BBC he believed President Recep Tayyip Erdogan wanted IS to succeed to prevent Kurdish gains.
Kurdish fighters - among them the PKK - have secured significant victories against IS militants in Syria and Iraq.
But Turkey, like a number of Western countries, considers the PKK a terrorist organisation.
A ceasefire in the long-running conflict with the group appeared to disintegrate in July, when Turkey began bombing PKK camps in northern Iraq, at the same time as launching air strikes on IS militants.
Observers say PKK fighters have been on the receiving end of far more attacks than ISIS....................http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-33818282
10/8/15