A PKK rebel on his way to a guerilla camp at Haqourki Mountain. Twenty-five Kurdish rebels were killed and a number wounded in a Turkish air strike last week targeting Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) hideouts in northern Iraq, an army spokesman has said(AFP/File/Mustafa Ozer)
Turkish Air Raid Kills 25 Kurdish Rebels: Army
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ANKARA (AFP) – Twenty-five Kurdish rebels were killed and a number were wounded in a Turkish air strike last week targeting Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) hideouts in northern Iraq, an army spokesman said on Friday.
The army received "corroborating reports from various intelligence sources that 25 terrorists were neutralised in the October 17 air raid," General Metin Gurak, the head of the general staff's press department, told a news conference here.
Many rebels were also wounded in the strike targeting the mountainous region of Qandil, a major PKK stronghold near the border between Iraq and Turkey, added Gurak, who offered no estimates on the number of wounded.
A news agency close to the rebels had claimed at the time that four militants -- members of an Iranian Kurdish separatist organisation linked to the PKK -- had been killed in the raid.
A further 17 PKK rebels were killed in security operations inside Turkey in the past week, Gurak said.
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My Comment: Turkey is now losing control of its eastern-southern provinces. It os only through a heavy ,military presence that some form of peace is maintained .... but it is clear that resentment is building in the region with no political solution in sight.