Turkish warplanes struck suspected Kurdish insurgent positions in Iraq and Syria early on Wednesday in a new aerial offensive that Ankara said aimed to protect Turkey's borders from 바카라terrorist threats."
The airstrikes killed at least four people, a Britain-based war monitoring group reported, and drew condemnation from U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish fighters who said the attack came days after the Kurdish-led forces in Syria battled Islamic State group militants.
A Turkish defense ministry statement said the strikes hit targets, including shelters, caves, ammunition depots and training camps, on Sinjar Mountain and in the Karacak region in northern Iraq, and the Derik region in northern Syria.
The operations dubbed 바카라Winter Eagle바카라 were aimed against Turkey's insurgent Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, in northern Iraq, which Ankara says has hideouts there, and the U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish forces known as People's Protection Units, or YPG in Syria.
The YPG is a close U.S. ally against the Islamic State group but is labeled a terrorist group by Ankara because of its ties to the PKK.
The strikes aimed to 바카라eliminate terrorist threats against our people and security forces from the north of Iraq and Syria and to ensure our border security,바카라 the ministry statement read.
바카라Last night, we bombed targets in three different locations and they could not even a find a hole to escape to,바카라 said Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Defense Minister Hulusi Akar claimed that several insurgents were 바카라neutralized바카라 in the operation, including a number of PKK names wanted by Turkey. Around 60 aircraft were involved in the offensive, including warplanes and armed and unarmed drones, the state-run Anadolu Agency reported. Close to 80 targets were struck, it said.
The war monitor in Syria 바카라 the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights 바카라 said Turkish drones fired two missiles at a power station near Syria's northeastern village of Malikiyah close to the Iraqi border, killing at least four people. It added that several people were wounded and electricity was cut in a number of nearby villages.
It said the strike hit the building where the guards stay, adding that the dead were both guards and civilians. The Observatory reported another Turkish drone strike at a power station a day earlier near the Semalka border crossing between Syria and Iraq's Kurdish region. It said one Kurdish fighter was wounded.
A Kurdish-led administration in northeast Syria condemned the Turkish airstrikes and urged the international community to intervene to stop what it called 바카라the terrorist Turkish aggression.바카라
It said the Turkish strikes came days after the Kurdish-led and U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces defeated scores of IS militants who broke into a prison where some 3,000 extremists are held in the northeastern city of Hassakeh. The weeklong battle left dozens of people dead, including many IS fighters.
바카라This escalation and aggression is a clear indication that Turkey is not happy with Daesh's failure,바카라 the authority said in a statement using an Arabic acronym to refer to the Islamic State group.
Turkey's defense ministry said 바카라utmost sensitivity was shown바카라 regarding the security of the civilians during the operations. It said Turkey would "continue the fight against terrorism for the security of our country and our nation with determination until the last terrorist is neutralized.바카라
Turkey has carried out similar cross-border airstrikes in the past.
The PKK has led an insurgency in southeast Turkey since 1984 which has killed tens of thousands of people. The group is considered a terror organization by Turkey and its allies, including the United States and the European Union.Â
