Turkish Air Force

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Turkish Air Force

Turkish army reported on Tuesday that its raids into the northern Iraqi territory controlled by the Kurds resulted in the killing of 100 and the injuring of 80 Kurdish separatists. The army announced that the air strikes would continue.

The Turkish air forces have bombed some 132 locations in the mountain region, while the artillery bombed 349 locations in an attempt to destroy all the bases of the Kurdish rebels.

The army added that the northern Iraqi region and the interior of the country will continue to be monitored as the attacks on the Kurdish bases will continue.

The attacks of the Turkish military are part of the promise the president of Turkey and the prime minister made last week, when soldiers of the Turkish army have been killed in bombings the Kurds immediately claimed.

Tension raised between the Turkish authorities and the Kurds in June, when the electoral system refused the right to participate in elections to a Kurdish man who had been convicted of terrorist acts.

Ever since, the Turkish military had been under Kurdish attack on various occasions, and these attacks claimed the lives of more than 40 men.

The military action executed last week by Turkish air force bases its identification of targets on documents delivered by the U.S. intelligence in 2008, which showed the Turks the exact locations of the Kurdish PKK bases.

Iraqi Mountains

Kurdish population in eastern Turkey entered conflict with the state in the 1980s, when the Kurdistan Workers Party, led by Abdullah Ocalan, staged attacks and demonstrations, thus being labeled as a terrorist organization by the Turks and by the United States and European Union.

Abdullah Ocalan was apprehended in 1999, and was sentenced to death initially, then, as the Constitution changed, and the death penalty was abolished, his sentence was commuted to life in prison.

Meanwhile, his lawyers have already won a case in his favor by European Court for Human Rights, which decided that Ocalan had been denied the right to defend himself in Turkey.

In February 2011, PKK and the Turkish government agreed to a ceasefire, which lasted until the electoral incident in June.

PKK pledged not to lay down weapons until Ocalan has been freed from prison, and their demands have been met.

While reacting in a military way to the killings of the Turkish soldiers, Ankara still hopes that the Kurdish problem can be settled by means of negotiation.

The struggle between Kurdish rebels and Turkish state has resulted over the last three decades in 40,000 deaths.

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