Turkish Fighter Planes Bomb Kurdish Rebels
By Associated Press | May 13, 2008
ANKARA, Turkey — Turkish fighter planes bombed Kurdish rebel bases in northern Iraq in a third straight night of air strikes, Kurdish officials said yesterday.Warplanes targeted suspected rebel hideouts near the towns of Neroye and Rekan in the Dahuk province in northern Iraq, near the Turkish border, the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan said in a statement posted to its official Web site.
A rebel spokesman for the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, confirmed the Sunday night air strikes. There was no immediate confirmation from the Turkish military, but troops have been attacking rebel bases for several nights following a deadly rebel raid on a military outpost in southeast Turkey last week. The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan said it had no information about casualties or damage.
