Two Turkish warplanes on Sunday bombed several areas in Sidakan district of Soran town in Iraq’s Kurdish Arbil province, a Kurdish media website reported.
“At 5:20 p.m. of Sunday, two warplanes believed to be Turkish ones heavily bombarded the mountains of Lolan in Sidakan district belonging to Soran,” a well-informed source exclusively told the PUK media web, according to the report.
In another Turkish air raid late Saturday, an 11-year old Iraqi girl was killed and another two people were wounded on the border areas in Sedikan sub-district in Soran, said the media web, adding the wounded were taken to emergency hospital for treatment.
Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari has condemned the Turkish “unilateral” military action and called Turkey to appeal to peace efforts.
Turkey has long been fighting with the banned Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK), which is active in eastern Turkey and northern Iraq, and frequently bombed PKK targets inside Iraqi Kurdistan.
On Saturday, PKK members attacked a military outpost, killing nine Turkish soldiers and injuring 14 others, while a mine blast killed two Turkish soldiers and injured two others both in Semdinli town of Hakkari province bordering Iraq.
Turkish government had vowed to continue its crush against the PKK with determination until the PKK is eradicated.
Listed as a terrorist organization by the Turkish government, the United States and the European Union, the PKK took up arms in 1984 in order to create an ethnic homeland in southeastern Turkey.
Some 40,000 people have been killed in conflicts, fuelled by PKK’s separatist campaign in Turkey.