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Turkey Kills 67 Kurdish Militants in Iraq

  • Children look at seized weapons from the Islamic State group on Sept. 6, 2015 in Kobane, northern Syria.

    Children look at seized weapons from the Islamic State group on Sept. 6, 2015 in Kobane, northern Syria. | Photo: AFP

Published 12 March 2016
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The militants were part of the Kurdish Workers' Party, which has been the target of intensified special operations since last summer.

Turkey's army said on Saturday it killed 67 Kurdish militants in airstrikes on camps and ammunition storage sites in neighboring northern Iraq on Wednesday.

Jets targeted sites at Qandil, Metina, Avasin, Haftanin and Basyan used by Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants, the armed forces said.

Separately, a bomb blast blamed on PKK militants hit an armored police vehicle near Turkey's border with Iraq on Friday, Turkish officials said. Two special force police officers were injured in the explosion on a road in Hakkari province's Yuksekova district, they added.

A cease-fire between the PKK and the state collapsed in July and attacks on Turkey's security forces have increased amid a surge in violence in the predominantly Kurdish southeast, killing hundreds of people.

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