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(19,429 posts) Sun Feb 12, 2012, 02:42 PM Feb 2012

Turkish jets bomb Kurdish rebel bases in north Iraq

AFP - Turkish jets have bombed Kurdish rebel hideouts in northern Iraq, home to members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), the army said on Sunday.

"Two groups of targets belonging to the separatist terrorists in the regions of Zap and Kahurk were hit with efficiency in the evening of February 11 by Turkish air force jets," the general staff said in a statement posted on its website.

The statement said the planes returned to base without incident and did not give any details on possible casualties on the rebel side in the second such raid in eight days.

Fighting between Turkish forces and PKK rebels has escalated in recent months.

http://www.france24.com/en/20120212-turkish-jets-bomb-kurdish-rebel-bases-north-iraq

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