Wednesday, December 11, 2013   Turkish Warplanes Strike Kurdish
Rebels In Iraq  Turkey's military says Turkish warplanes have
carried out air strikes on suspected Kurdish rebel hideouts in
northern Iraq.  The army's general staff said on its website
that the air strikes had hit "nine targets" belonging to the
outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).  It said the raids
began on June 22.  The raids are the second Turkish air campaign
against rebel hideouts in northern Iran within a week following
the killing of eight Turkish soldiers along the border with Iraq
on June 19.  The military said more than 30 rebels have been
killed following the June 19 attack.  Kurdish rebels have used
northern Iraq as a springboard for attacks on Turkish targets in
their decades-long fight for automony in Turkey's Kurdish-
majority southeast.  The conflict has claimed the lives of some
45,000 people since 1984.  Based on reporting by AFP, AP, and
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