Turkey stages artillery strikes on Kurd fighters in Iraq

Istanbul, Turkey — Turkey staged new artillery strikes against Kurdish separatist positions in northern Iraq, the defense ministry and Iraqi sources said Saturday. While President Recep Tayyip Erdogan this month said operations against the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, in Iraq were coming to an end, a security source in northern Iraq said the latest overnight shelling was "intense." "In line with our right to self-defense ... air operations were carried out against terrorist targets in northern Iraq...