A statement released by Turkey's air force said that it carried out the air strikes against PKK targets located in the Sinjar Mountain region in northern Iraq, and in Karachok mountains in northeastern Syria on Tuesday.
The targets were hit to prevent the PKK from sending "terrorists, arms, ammunition and explosives to Turkey," the statement said, adding that the operation was conducted "within the scope of the international law".
The PKK are Kurdish militants operating in Turkey, while the Rojava Defence Units (YPG) are Kurdish fighters operating in Northern Syria and the Peshmerga fighters are in charge of security in Iraqi Kurdistan.
At least six people were killed, five from the Peshmerga and a sixth from Asayish (Rojava)," Lieutenant General Jabbar Yawar, secretary general of the Peshmerga ministry in Iraq's autonomous Kurdish government, told AFP news agency.
The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a monitoring group which tracks the Syrian war, said that at least 18 YPG militants were killed in the air strikes in Syria's Hasakah province.
The YPG in Northern Syria, said on their Twitter account that Turkish war planes targeted the headquarters of the General Command of the YPG in Mount Karachok near the city of Derik in Hasakah province.
The YPG also reported that a media center, a local radio station, communication headquarters and some military institutions were also hit.
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25 April 2017 - 12:10
News ID: 825891
(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Turkish military jets have carried out air strikes against Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants in northern Iraq and northeast Syria, killing at least 24 people, Turkey's state-run Anadolu news agency said.
