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ISTANBUL, Oct 16 (KUNA) -- The Turkish army said on Monday that its warplanes destroyed sites, weapons stores and hideouts belonging to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in northern Iraq.
آ آ آ Turkey's General Staff said in a statement today that the air strikes targeted the organization's camps in the Zab region, which comes after monitoring movements of terrorist groups in the region that were planning an attack on checkpoints of the Turkish forces on the border areas with Iraq.
آ آ آ The Turkish armed forces have consistently targeted the organization's sites and pursued its elements in the south, southeast and north of Iraq in response to the terrorist attacks carried out inside Turkey from time to time from Iraqi territory.(end).
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