(MENAFN) On Monday, the Turkish military said that its jets destroyed eight targets used as shelters by PKK "terrorists" in northern Iraq on Sunday, Aandolu Agency reported.
"Counter-terror operations" were carried out in Hakurk and Qandil regions, the General Staff said.
Turkey views the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which has fought a three-decade insurgency in Turkey as a terrorist group and it is deemed likewise by the United States, the European Union and Turkey.
Turkey-backed FSA militia swept into Afrin town in Syria on March 18, raising their and Turkish flags in the town center and declaring full control after an eight-week campaign to drive out Kurdish YPG fighters.
Turkey has been threatning to launch military campaign against PKK in Syria's Manbij and Iraq's Sinjar.
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