WASHINGTON - Turkey’s military says its warplanes have attacked Kurdish rebel targets inside northern Iraq.

The military says the airstrike targeted bases of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, in regions close to the Turkish border and in the Qandil mountains. The statement said such operations will continue “according to military needs.”

Officials in Iraq say one woman was killed and two others wounded in Turkish airstrikes on 10 Kurdish villages early Sunday.

Turkey has launched several cross-border military operations in recent months against PKK rebels. Ankara accuses the rebels of using bases in northern Iraq to carry out deadly attacks in southeastern Turkey.

In October Turkey’s parliament approved a resolution giving the government the authority to order cross-border military operations against the PKK.

The United States and Iraq have urged Turkey not to launch a cross-border incursion, fearing that it could destabilize the relatively peaceful region of northern Iraq.

The PKK has been fighting for Kurdish autonomy in southeastern Turkey since 1984. More than 30,000 people have died in the conflict

Source:  VOA News