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Turkish jets bomb northern Iraq

Mon Jan 5, 2009 12:18pm EST
ARBIL, Iraq, Jan 5 (Reuters) - Turkish warplanes bombed targets in northern Iraq on Monday in Ankara's latest offensive against suspected Kurdish guerrilla positions, an Iraqi local official said.

Azad Wassu, mayor of the Iraqi town of Zarawa close to the Qandil mountains in northern Iraq's border area, said he had no immediate details of whether anyone had been wounded or infrastructure damaged.

The Turkish military regularly targets separatist Kurdish PKK rebels, who Ankara says use remote areas of northern Iraq as a base from which to fight for a Kurdish state in what is now southeastern Turkey. (Reporting by Shamal Aqrawi, Writing by Mohammed Abbas)


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