Turkish Planes Bomb
Villages Inside Southern Kurdistan
SULAIMANI, (Southern Kurdistan), Dec 16, 2007 (AFP) - Turkish warplanes
bombed early on Sunday several villages inside Iraqi Kurdistan targeting Kurdish
guerrillas, an Iraqi Kurdish official told AFP.
"According to our preliminary reports eight Turkish warplanes bombed some
villages along the (Iraq-Turkey) border near the Qandil mountains early today,"
said Jabbar Yawar, spokesman for the KRG peshmerga force.
In Ankara the Turkish army confirmed its warplanes had carried out air strikes
on Kurdish rebel targets in Iraqi Kurdistan.
The planes hit the "regions of Zap, Hakurk and Avasin as well as the Qandil
mountains", the general staff said in a statement on its Internet site.
Hussin Ahmed, a Kurdish government administrator from near the Qandil
mountains, also confirmed the air strikes, saying they began at around 2:00 am
(2300 GMT Saturday) and lasted till 5:00 am.
Yawar said the air strikes damaged some of the bridges connecting the villages
near the Qandil mountains.
A Kurdish official told AP that
Turkish warplanes bombarded 10 Kurdish villages, killing one woman and injuring
two others.
"Some familes are fleeing from the villages attacked today. We have dispatched
our border teams to check the casualties and damages," he added.
