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

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February/06/2016

Source: Turkish military launches large air campaign on PKK targets in northern Iraq – CRIME

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.

Some 50 targets, including a group of PKK members who were in a meeting, were hit on the second day of the operation.

The same sources said PKK targets in Turkey’s Hakkari in the southeast were also hit on Feb. 4.

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Tags: Iraq, Middle East War, PKK, Terrorism, Turkey