(MENAFN- Jordan News Agency) Amman, July 19 (Petra)-- Turkey launched an air attack on Iraqi Kurdistan after the killing of a Turkish diplomat in the region, Minister of Defence Hulusi Akar said.
The Turkish vice consul to Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region was shot dead Wednesday in the local capital Erbil. Police sources said two other people were also killed.
There was no claim of responsibility for the shooting, but many Iraqi experts have pointed to the probability that the Turkish separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which Ankara considers a terrorist group, was behind the attack.
"Following the evil attack in Erbil, we have launched the most comprehensive air operation on Qandil and dealt a heavy blow to the (PKK) terror organization," Akar said in a Thursday, July 18 statement.
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