The U.S. and Global Security Review - Blog by Michael Novakhov

Turkey air strikes: PKK targeted by air force jets Tuesday August 11 th , 2015  at  5:40 PM BBC News - Home 1 Share Turkey launched a series of overnight air strikes against Kurdish militants, aimed at 17 targets in the south-east, the army says. The targets were in Hakkari province on the border with Iran and Iraq. Turkey has seen increasing violence in recent weeks between the military and Kurdish separatists. The strikes come a day after nine people were killed in a wave of attacks on security forces, some of them in the south-east. The PKK has said it was behind one of those - the bombing of an  Istanbul police station  in which four people died. In a statement, the PKK named three of its members who died in the attack and during a subsequent clash with Turkish security forces. A ceasefire in the long-running conflict with the group appeared to disintegrate in July, when Turkey began bombing PKK camps in northern Iraq, at the s