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Turkish jets strike PKK targets after deadly militant attack

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The military said its aircraft bombed 23 targets in a mountainous area near the Iraqi frontier on Monday. Another six soldiers had been wounded, but none were in critical condition.

The clashes, weeks before polls the ruling AK Party hopes will restore its majority, threaten to sink a peace process President Tayyip Erdogan launched in 2012 in an attempt to end an insurgency that has killed more than 40,000 people.

Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) rebels said they had killed 31 servicemen in an attack on a convoy and clashes on Sunday in the mountainous Daglica area of Hakkari province, near the Iraqi border. The army statement said 16 had died, making this the highest military death toll in a single attack for years.

"Those mountains will be cleared of these terrorists. Whatever it takes, they will be cleared," Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu told a news conference after a meeting with the chief of the military general staff.

"The mountains, plains and cities of this country will not be left to terrorists. That's it. Our sorrow is deep and grave."


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