Turkish military kills 13 Kurdish militants in northern Iraq

Turkish leaders, army commanders and family members attend funeral prayers for army general Aydogan Aydin, one of 13 army officers who were killed in a helicopter crash in Sirnak, late Wednesday, in Ankara, Turkey, Thursday, June 1, 2017. Turkey's military killed 13 Kurdish militants in the northern Iraq. (AP)

ANKARA: Turkey’s military killed 13 members of the militant Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in air strikes in northern Iraq on Sunday, the military said in a statement.
The warplanes struck seven PKK targets in the Avasin-Basyan region of northern Iraq, and killed militants believed to be preparing for an attack, the military said.
In a separate air strike in Turkey’s southeastern province of Van late on Saturday, the military said warplanes had killed another 10 PKK militants.
The PKK, which has carried out a three-decade insurgency in southeast Turkey, has camps in the mountains of northern Iraq, near the Turkish border. It is considered a terrorist group by Turkey, the US and the EU.