Turkey Strikes 17 PKK Targets in Southeast: Army

Turkey Strikes 17 PKK Targets in Southeast: Army
Tue Aug 11, 2015 12:50:16

Turkish war planes overnight carried out a new wave of air strikes against targets of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in the country's southeast, the army said Tuesday.

"Seventeen targets of the separatist terrorists were hit with precision and neutralised" in the Hakkari province on the border with Iran and Iraq, the army said.

The assault came after a day of a attacks in Turkey that killed six members of the security forces.

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