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| Turkey hits Kurdish bases in Iraq | |
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| Turkish warplanes bombed Kurdish rebel positions in northern Iraq on Wednesday and Thursday, Turkish officials say. | Turkish warplanes bombed Kurdish rebel positions in northern Iraq on Wednesday and Thursday, Turkish officials say. |
| The raids came hours after the deaths of 10 Turkish soldiers in two attacks on Wednesday that were blamed on the rebels, the deadliest in months. | |
| The banned Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) has been fighting for autonomy since 1984. Since then, the conflict has left more than 40,000 people dead. | |
| The government has arrested 51 suspected PKK members this month. | |
| Air force planes struck targets in the Iraqi border regions of Zap and Avasin-Basyan. | |
| "The targets... have been hit effectively and with full accuracy," said a statement from the military that was quoted by AFP news agency. | |
| On Wednesday, a powerful bomb blast killed nine soldiers in Diyarbakir in south-eastern Turkey. Suspected rebels also shot dead a soldier near the town of Semdinli, close to the border with Iraq. | |
| Observers say Ankara has had some success in cracking down on Kurdish separatists recently and also improved co-operation with the local authorities in northern Iraq where PKK militants are thought to hide. |