Turkish jet fighters strike PKK targets

Turkish war planes have destroyed targets of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in Northern Iraq and areas near the border with Iraq, the military said.

“Shelters, bunkers and military positions in PKK camps in Zap, Metina, Gara, Avaşin-Basyan, Hakurk and the Qandil Mountains in Northern Iraq were hit by Turkish fighter jets in Northern Iraq," the Turkish General Staff said on its official site.

The PKK positions near the southeastern province of Hakkari was also targeted.

Troops found 300 bullets and various living materials in a shelter, discovered during a patrol mission near the southeastern province of Şırnak.

Security forces confiscated one gun, two chargers and an infantry rifle when they have searched a car, detaining two people, suspicious of having ties to the terrorist PKK in the Suruç town of Şanlıurfa.

The General Staff also declared that one man, suspected of being linked to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) was seized in an attempt to cross into Turkey illegally from Syria.

In recent four months, Turkey has stepped up reprisal attacks against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party, (PKK). A ceasefire in the long-running conflict with the armed group broke in July after the seperatist group resumed its campaign following the deadly suicide bombing in Suruç near the Syrian border.

Turkey's retaliatory strikes on PKK bases in northern Iraq had begun on July 23, a day after two police officers were found dead at their home in Şanlıurfa, in the southeast, in an attack, which was later claimed by the outlawed organization.

Like Turkey, both the US and EU list the PKK as a terrorist organization. The PKK began a bloody campaign for a Kurdish-self-rule in the Southeast in the early 1980s. Some 40,000 people, including security forces and civilians, have been killed during the campaign.