Turkish warplanes have attacked a hideout of the rebel Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) in Northern Iraq, the Turkish army says.
Turkish jets destroyed a PKK base in the operation, killing an unspecified number of militants, the army said.
The militants were based at a cave in the Qandil mountain region of Iraq.
The airstrikes come two days after a bomb attack in the Turkish capital, Istanbul, killed 17 people. The Turkish government blamed Kurdish militants.
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Turkey accuses PKK rebels of using hideouts in northern Iraq as part of their campaign for self-rule in mainly Kurdish south-east Turkey.
Some 40,000 people have been killed since the PKK launched its campaign in 1984.
(BBC)
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