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by Our Foreign Desk
ANKARA launched a full-scale offensive against its Kurdish minority yesterday, bombing refugee camps in northern Iraq and rounding up dozens of political activists across Turkey itself.
Nine F-16s and two F-4 jets raided 18 Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) positions, including in the Qandil mountains where the group’s leadership is based, the state-run Anadolu Agency reported.
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