Turkish
warplanes struck Kurdish militant targets in two areas of southeast Turkey
overnight, killing 11 Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) fighters, the army said on
Tuesday.
One air
operation was conducted near the Syrian border, in the Dargecit district of
Mardin province, where warplanes destroyed two gun positions and killed eight
militants believed to be preparing for an attack, the army said in a statement.
It said
three other PKK members were killed and a cave destroyed in air strikes in the
countryside of Hakkari province, which borders Iraq and Iran.
The PKK took
up arms against the Turkish state in 1984 and more than 40,000 people, mostly
Kurds, have been killed in the conflict. It is designated a terrorist group by
Turkey, the United States and the European Union.
A ceasefire
between the Turkish state and the militants broke down in July 2015 and the
southeast subsequently saw some of the worst violence since the insurgency
began.
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