Turkeys military said its warplanes and artillery units have bombed and killed a large group of PKK terrorists as they tried to infiltrate Turkey from northern Iraq.

- 10 / 10 / 2008 12:23

Turkeys military said its warplanes and artillery units have bombed and killed a large group of PKK terrorists as they tried to infiltrate Turkey from northern Iraq.

Military spokesman Gen. Metin Gurak says the operation took place late Thursday.

He did not give any specific location or an estimate of how many terrorists had been killed.

Parliament on Wednesday approved a government request to extend for another year a mandate to launch military operations against PKK terrorists in northern Iraq.

The offensive, announced Friday, was the latest in a series of Turkish attacks against the terror organization in northern Iraq after the killing of 22 people in attacks in less than a wekk.

Gurak says the group was detected through surveillance and most of its members have been killed in the attack along the rugged Iraqi border.