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Turkey: Air force strikes PKK targets on home soil
Deadly violence by ‘Kurdish rebels’ continues

by Our Foreign Desk

TURKISH warplanes bombed targets on their own territory yesterday as part of the government’s campaign against Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) separatists.

The military said jets had hit 17 PKK positions around Buzul mountain and the Ikiyaka region in Hakkari province, which borders Iran and Iraq.

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