Nearly 400 Kurdish fighters killed in two weeks of airstrikes: report

Published August 9th, 2015 - 11:40 GMT
Nearly 400 members of the PKK have been killed and hundreds more injured since Turkey began launching airstrikes against the group in northern Iraq, a report said Sunday. (AFP/File)
Nearly 400 members of the PKK have been killed and hundreds more injured since Turkey began launching airstrikes against the group in northern Iraq, a report said Sunday. (AFP/File)

Nearly 400 members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) have been killed and hundreds more injured from only two weeks of Turkish airstrikes in northern Iraq, official news agency Anatolia reported Sunday.

At least four PKK leaders and 30 female rebels were among the dead, according to Anatolia's Turkish security and intelligence sources.

Turkey began conducting airstrikes against the group the country considers a terrorist organization shortly after an attack in Suruc launched a series of Kurdish retaliations.

The PKK has killed at least 20 members of Turkey's security forces, ending a ceasefire that has been in place between Turkey and the Kurds since 2013, AFP reported. 

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