ERBIL, Kurdistan Region — Turkish fighter jets Wednesday carried out a wave of airstrikes against Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) positions in Turkey’s eastern Tunceli province, according to a security source quoted by the state-run Anadolu Agency on Saturday.
The airstrikes were carried out by F-16 and F-4 jets and resulted in the deaths of 55 to 60 PKK fighters in an operation near Ovacik.
In July, Turkish warplanes launched attacks on PKK camps in the Kurdistan region of Iraq.
Turkey and the PKK have been locked in a three-decade conflict in which some 40,000 people have been killed. The conflict was re-ignited in June after the PKK claimed responsibility for the killing of two Turkish policemen.
The resumption of hostilities ended a peace deal between the PKK and Ankara forged in 2013.
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