Turkey’s state-run news agency says Turkish jets have carried out air strikes against a group of Kurdish rebels as well as the militants’ camps in northern Iraq killing at least 40 rebels whereas 10 policemen were killed in a bomb blast in Igdir province.The Anadolu Agency said Tuesday that F-16 and F-4 fighter jets bombed a group of up to 25 Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, believed to have carried out a roadside bomb attack that killed 16 soldiers near the border with Iraq on Sunday.
The agency said the jets struck the rebels on their escape routes in Iraq and also targeted six rebel camps there.
Anadolu said 53 planes were involved in the strikes.
The agency did not cite a source for report and there was no immediate official confirmation.
Ten Turkish police officers were also killed in a bomb attack on a minibus in the eastern Turkish province of Igdir on Tuesday, a government official told Reuters.
The attack came amid a surge in violence between the state and Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants.
