Turkey's military
killed six members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in air
strikes in northern Iraq on Thursday, the army said in a statement.
Turkish
warplanes hit the Avasin-Basyan region in northern Iraq, killing PKK
militants believed to be in preparation of an attack, the military said.
The
PKK, which has carried out a three-decade insurgency against the
Turkish state, has camps in the mountains of northern Iraq, near the
Turkish border. It is considered a
terrorist group by Turkey, the United
States and European Union.
A
ceasefire between the Turkish state and the PKK broke down in July 2015
and the southeast subsequently saw some of the worst violence since the
PKK launched its insurgency in 1984. Reuters
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