Turkey kept pressure on Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) separatists in northern Iraq on Friday, with a rebel spokesman saying Turkish jets were carrying out air strikes for a third straight day. “The attacks started again this morning (Friday) against Qandil only,” Dozdar Hammo said, referring to an area of north Iraq close to the border with Turkey.
He added that bombings by the Turkish air force lasted for around three hours on Thursday night against Qandil and other bases close to the Iraq-Turkey border.
The Turkish military said its jets had bombed 28 targets on a second day of attacks on bases in northern Iraq used by PKK. Following bombing raids on 60 targets Wednesday the air force launched an “effective” operation Thursday against 28 targets in the Qandil, Hakurk, Avasin-Basyan and Zap regions of northern Iraq, the military said in a statement on its website. In coordination with the air strikes, 96 more targets in the region were kept under intense artillery fire, the statement said.
