Articles About Terrorist Activities

Turkish Daily News

The Turkish military has bombed 13 targets of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, in northern Iraq, said the General Staff in a written statement posted on its Web site yesterday.

The planes attacked terrorist targets in the Zab region near the Turkish border Wednesday, according to the statement.

An investigation into terrorist casualties is ongoing, it added, and underlined the fact that the attack specifically targeted the terrorist organization, with the military having taking all necessary measures to avoid civilians in the region.

The statement also said the military was determined to press ahead with anti-terrorist operations both inside and outside the country, “according to military needs.”

Turkey has conducted frequent air raids on suspected positions of the PKK in northern Iraq and also launched a weeklong ground offensive in the region earlier this year.

The PKK, blacklisted as a terrorist group by Turkey, the United States and the European Union, uses bases in Iraq as a staging ground for cross-border attacks on Turkish targets. 

Since a key November meeting between Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and U.S. President George W. Bush, the United States has been supplying Turkey with intelligence crucial in its fight against PKK terrorists.

Source: www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=110787