Diyarbakir, Turkey (Reuters)-Turkey sent several fighter jets across its borders with Iraq to attack the guerrillas of the Kurdistan Workers ' Party (PKK), said a local military sources Thursday.
The Jets bombarded targets in the mountainous 12 Candlesticks in the autonomous community of Kurdistan, Iraq, on Wednesday, the source said told AFP without a description of the victim.
Office of the pro-Kurdish Firat News confirmed the incident, saying the attack aimed at the two villages and destroyed many farms and orchards.
The attack was carried out when peace negotiations began between Ankara and the PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan, who is serving life in prison.
Turkey is hoping that negotiations will produce a cease-fire and an end to the Kurdish rebellion that has lasted almost three decades in the southeastern region of the country.
Last month, Turkey's army declared, they killed 14 guerrillas in the town of Hakkari, southeastern Turkey, when they were preparing to attack a border post. A soldier also died in Turkey clash that ensues.
Ankara declared, using the guerrillas hiding in northern Iraq to infiltrate Turkey and do second-half attacks-fled to the security forces.
Turkey Intelligence Agency began talks with PKK leaders again imprisoned, Abdullah Ocalan, late last year, with the main purpose of disarming rebels who use bases in Iraq as a place to launch attacks against security forces in the southeastern region of Turkey.
The justice and Development Party (AKP) which ruled stronghold of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan urged Turkey to end the Kurdish conflict, which has lasted almost three dasarwarsa.
The fugitive Ocalan was arrested in Kenya on February 15, 1999 in a secret operation Turkey after he was exiled from Syria, where he was based for a decade to organize much of the PKK.
The initial verdict against Ocalan death sentence converted to life imprisonment sentence on a prison island off the coast of Istanbul since 2002.
Each year the Kurdish demonstrators clashed with police to protest Turkey's arrest of their leader.
Turkey, the EU and the u.s. considers the Kurdistan Workers ' Party (PKK) as a terrorist organization.
Turkey's military launched air attacks and ground operations are limited to the northern Iraq since August 2011 following the wave of attacks, the PKK guerrillas after the traffic-jammed a ceasefire before.
The PKK launched attacks from their hiding places in the remote mountains of Iraq as part of their war to gain greater rights and autonomy for the Kurdish population.
More than 40,000 people have died since the PKK took up arms in 1984.
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