Turkish jets hit PKK bases in Iraqi border amid clashes

Turkish fighter jets hit outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) bases on the border with Iraq late Aug. 19 after eight soldiers were killed in a blast in the southeastern province of Siirt.

F-16 jets which took off from the Diyarbak?r 8th Main Jet Base hit PKK bases in the town of Karaçal? on the border with Iraq for around an hour late Aug. 19.

The airstrikes came soon after Turkey was shaken with the reports of an attack in Siirt.

An official ceremony was held for eight soldiers who were killed in an explosion caused by a remotely detonated bomb placed on the road linking Siirt to its district of Pervari during the passing of a military patrolling convoy at around 2:10 p.m. on Aug. 19.

The eight soldiers were identified as Hakan Aktürk from the western province of Burdur, Ferdi Gerekli from the southern province of Adana, Bar?? Ak?n from Ankara, Mehmet Halil Bark?n from the southeastern province of ??rnak, Recep Beycur from the eastern province of Erzurum, Ömer Erüstün from the southeastern province of Kahramanmara?, Bahad?r Ayd?n from the western province of Bursa and Emre Kaan Arl? from the northwestern province of Kocaeli. 

A 21-year-old man was killed amid clashes between the outlawed Patriotic Revolutionary Youth Movement (YDG-H) and security forces in the southeastern province of ??rnak's ?dil district late Aug. 19.

Cabbar Acar, who was working as a pumper at a gasoline station in ?dil, was allegedly shot by police firing from an armored personnel carrier as he was leaving a relative's house. He was gravely injured and succumbed to his injured in hospital. Shop owners in the town who came to work in the morning kept their shops closed after learning that police had killed Acar.

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