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Turkey bombs 'terrorist targets' in Iraq and Syria
Turkey conducted overnight air strikes on nearly 30 "terrorist targets" in northern Iraq and Syria after nine of itssoldiers were killed in a military base in Iraq, the defence ministry saidSaturday.
"Air operations were carried out on terrorist targets in the regions ofMetina, Hakurk, Gara and Qandil," the ministry said in a statement.
The Turkish soldiers were killed during clashes that followed an attemptedintrusion at the base near the northern Iraqi city of Metina, the ministrysaid, revising upward a previous toll of five.
The ministry said the strikes had targeted 29 locations including "caves,bunkers, shelters and oil installations" belonging to the Kurdistan Workers'Party (PKK) and the YPG (People's Protection Units), a Syrian Kurdish militiawhich is a central element of US-allied forces in a coalition against IslamicState.
Ankara has operated several dozen military posts in the area for the past 25years in its decades-old war against the PKK, a group blacklisted by Turkeyand many of its Western allies as a terrorist organisation.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was due to hold an emergency securitymeeting Saturday in Istanbul to discuss the uptick in attacks on troops inthe region, reports BSS.
Meanwhile, 113 people were arrested for suspected links with the PKK innationwide raids on Saturday, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said on X,formerly Twitter.