Turkey launches another air strike on PKK bases in Iraq

28/04/2008

ANKARA, Turkey -- The army confirmed on Saturday (April 26th) that its warplanes struck Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) targets inside northern Iraq on Friday, the second such air attack in a week. Military sources described it as the biggest Turkish air operation in northern Iraq this year. The army said ground fighting continues, with two soldiers killed in a battle in the mountainous province of Sirnak. A landmine there killed another soldier and a member of the village guard militia.

In other news, Deniz Baykal won re-election as leader of Turkey's main opposition Republican People's Party at the party congress Saturday. Baykal, 70, ran unopposed. (Reuters, Zaman - 27/04/08; TurkishPress, AFP, Reuters, RBK, ANKA, Anadolu Agency - 26/04/08)