Turkish planes attack Kurdish rebel targets in Iraq
16 January 2013
Agence France-Presse
ANKARA, 16 JAN: Turkish military planes struck rebel targets in northern Iraq in a bid to rout separatists from the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), security sources said.
“A total of 18 targets were fired at on Monday in the northern Iraqi regions of Zap and Metina” in Iraqi Kurdistan, said a source in southeastern Turkey, on the border with Iraq.
A separate source in Ankara said F-16 fighter planes had continued to pound the region on yesterday. It was not made clear whether there were any victims.
Turkey says around 2,000 Kurdish rebels are hiding in the mountainous region on the Iraqi side the region.
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