Turkey Conducts Airstrikes on 17 Suspected PKK Targets

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, 3rd right and his predecessor Abdullah Gul, 3rd left, accompanied by other officials pray at Istanbul Police Headquarters during a memorial ceremony for police officer Beyazit Ceken, head of the Bomb Disposal Branch

Turkey conducted a new series of airstrikes overnight, hitting 17 suspected Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) targets in the southeastern part of the country on the border with Iran and Iraq.

According to a statement of the Turkish General Staff, the airstrikes were aimed at “terrorist targets” around the Buzul mountain and Ikiyaka region in Hakkari province.

Although the military did not specify the name of the targeted group, it is highly likely that the targets are suspected positions of the banned PKK.

The airstrikes come as a response to the series of armed attacks against Turkish security forces on Monday, which claimed the lives of six personnel.

An attack on a police station in Istanbul resulted in the death of one police officer and injured at least eleven people, including four other policemen.

Four policemen were murdered and another officer injured in a roadside bomb attack in the southeastern province of Sirnak.

Another soldier was killed in a rocket attack allegedly carried out by PKK militants on a military helicopter in Beytussebap district.

Another Turkish soldier was killed overnight in a gun attack on a military post in Sirnak, Hurriyet Daily informs.

Meanwhle, Turkish police has launched anti-terrorist operations against the youth movement of PKK on Tuesday in the western and southern parts of the country.

A total of 16 suspected members of the Patriotic Revolutionist Youth Movement (YDG-H) were detained in the Menemen and Torbali districts of the western province of Izmir, while another seven were arrested in the southern province of Adana.

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