Turkey kills 13 Kurdish militants in northern Iraq

Turkey's military has killed 13 members of the militant Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in air strikes in northern Iraq.

In this July 29, 2015 file photo, a Turkish Air Force warplane rises in the sky after taking off from Incirlik Air Base, in Adana Source: AAP

 

The warplanes struck seven PKK targets in the Avasin-Basyan region of northern Iraq on Sunday, and killed militants believed to be preparing for an attack, the military said.

In a separate air strike in Turkey's southeastern province of Van late on Saturday, the military said warplanes had killed another 10 PKK militants.

The PKK, which has carried out a three-decade insurgency in southeast Turkey, has camps in the mountains of northern Iraq, near the Turkish border. It is considered a terrorist group by Turkey, the United States and the European Union.