(KUNA) -- The Turkish army started Friday a wide scale land-air winter attacks against the separatists in south east Turkey. Turkish media reported that hundreds of paratroopers took positions close to areas of the separatists in Tongali city and the camps believed to house separatists were bombed. The police command employed two Cobra jet fighters that are still intensively bombing camps of the separatists Yesterday, Turkey welcomed a raid by U.S. and Iraqi forces on a refugee camp of Turkish Kurds in northern Iraq as a first step towards combating Kurdish rebels, but insisted the camp must be shut down.
Iraqi and U.S. troops conducted a search operation earlier at the Makhmur refugee camp in northern Iraq, which Ankara has long argued provides a safe haven for militants from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). Ankara has been urging U.S. forces to crack down on the Turkish Kurd PKK rebels, who use Kurdish northern Iraq as a base. |