SULAIMANI (ESTA) — Turkish warplanes continue to bomb areas in the Kurdistan Region, according to local sources.
Turkish fighter jets carried out “massive airstrikes” in several areas in the Region’s Mount Qandil on Wednesday, Iraq’s state news agency NINA cited local sources as saying.
Casualties or damages remained unclear.
Turkey has conducted numerous ground and aerial cross-border offensives into neighboring northern Iraq to attack Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) fighters, who maintains bases in the region.
On February 10, the Turkish military launched an operation, dubbed “Claw-Eagle 2”, against the PKK in Gara region, 50 km northeast of Duhok.
The PKK-affiliated People’s Defense Center said 15 of its fighters were killed during the operation.
On February 13, Turkey’s Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said the Turkish military had found bodies of 13 Turkish citizens in a cave, who he said were held by the PKK on the Gara mountain.
The People’s Defense Forces (HPG), the PKK military wing, denied it had killed the Turkish citizens, saying the area was bombed by Turkish warplanes.
