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Hurriyet

Turkish armed forces shelled terror organization PKK bases in northern Iraq on Monday, according to Iraqi officials.

Colonel Hussein Tamor, head of border guards in Iraq’s northern Kurdish province of Dahuk, told Reuters that artillery shells had struck at around 4:00 p.m. (1300 GMT) in the area, which has a remote mountain border with southeastern Turkey.

A spokesman for the Kurdish Peshmerga Security forces, Jabbar Yawar, said there were three or four Turkish warplanes flying over Dahuk at the time of the attack.

“The bombing was very hard,” Yawar told Reuters.

The bombardment lasted for an hour and a half, an official with the Iraqi border guard told AFP.

The officials said there were no casualties in the strikes because the area was largely unpopulated.

Turkey, provided with intelligence by the United States, has stepped up its campaign to crackdown on the PKK both inside Turkey and in northern Iraq, after the terror organization increased its attacks on Turkish soldiers, as well as civilians.  

Source: arama.hurriyet.com.tr/arsivnews.aspx?id=10328099