{"id":989,"date":"2008-07-24T15:59:42","date_gmt":"2008-07-24T12:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=989"},"modified":"2014-01-01T19:57:03","modified_gmt":"2014-01-01T17:57:03","slug":"turkish-jets-target-pkk-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2008\/07\/24\/turkish-jets-target-pkk-in-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish jets target PKK in Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Turkish military has said its warplanes have attacked Kurdish separatist targets in northern Iraq.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The military, in a statement on its website, said 13 targets were &#8220;successfully hit&#8221; in the raids.<\/p>\n<p>There was no information on any casualties suffered by the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday&#8217;s attacks, in the Zap region, were the latest in a series carried out by Turkey since it intensified operations at the end of last year. <!-- E SF --><\/p>\n<p>The Turkish statement said its military would press ahead with anti-PKK operations inside Turkey and across the border in Iraq &#8220;according to military needs&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey accuses PKK rebels of using hideouts in northern Iraq as part of their campaign for self-rule in mainly Kurdish south-east Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>Some 40,000 people have been killed since the PKK launched its campaign in 1984.<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC, 24 July 2008<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Turkish military has said its warplanes have attacked Kurdish separatist targets in northern Iraq. The military, in a statement on its website, said 13 targets were &#8220;successfully hit&#8221; in the raids. There was no information on any casualties suffered by the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). Wednesday&#8217;s attacks, in the Zap region, were the latest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":26549,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[1280,128],"class_list":["post-989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-turkey","tag-pkk","tag-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}