BBC NEWS | Europe | Turkey hits Kurdish bases in Iraq - 0 views
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Turkish warplanes bombed Kurdish rebel positions in northern Iraq on Wednesday and Thursday, Turkish officials say. The raids came hours after the deaths of 10 Turkish soldiers in two separate attacks that were blamed on the rebels, the deadliest in months.
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Air force planes bombed targets in the Iraqi border regions of Zap and Avasin-Basyan in the overnight raids.
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On Wednesday, a powerful bomb blast killed nine soldiers in Diyarbakir in south-eastern Turkey. Suspected rebels also shot dead a soldier near the town of Semdinli, close to the border with Iraq.
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