Turkey bombs Kurdish hideouts
7/10/08
Turkish warplanes carried out a bombing raid against Kurdish rebel hideouts in neighbouring northern Iraq last night in retaliation for an attack that killed 15 Turkish soldiers. The air strikes came as thousands of people gathered across Turkey yesterday for the funerals of the soldiers killed in a Kurdish rebel attack on a border post. Turkey’s leaders have vowed to crush the separatists. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan issued a fresh appeal to Iraqi Kurds to take action against the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), whose militants - reportedly entering the country from camps in the mountains of northern Iraq - carried out the bloody attack on the outpost near the frontier on Friday.
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