Turkish jets strike PKK target

Turkish jets struck targets of the terrorist organization PKK in northern Iraq, Turkish General Staff said in a statement on Sunday.

 "Turkish airplanes have effectively hit a PKK target across the Turkish-Iraqi border in Zap region of northern Iraq on Saturday night," said the statement posted on the website, without further details.

The Turkish military has periodically bombed and shelled suspected PKK positions in Turkish-Iraqi border area during the past few months.

Turkey, provided with intelligence on PKK movements in Iraq by the U.S., has stepped up military action against the PKK since December, carrying out several air strikes and a week-long ground incursion into northern Iraq in February, where more than 2,000 PKK terrorists take refuge.

In February it launched an eight-day ground incursion into Iraq.

The PKK, listed by the United States and Turkey as a terrorist group, took up arms against Turkey in 1984 with the aim of creating an ethnic homeland in the southeast.

More than 30,000 people have been killed in the over-two-decade conflict