Turkish army announced on Saturday its planes staged raids in Iraq, bombarding 85 Kurdish rebel targets.

Turkish army announced on Saturday its planes staged raids in Iraq, bombarding 85 Kurdish rebel targets.

"Eighty five targets were hit accurately and effectively in the morning and then in the evening," the army chief of staff said in a communique on its website.
The targets were in the zones of Hakurk, Avasin-Basyan and Zap, in northern Iraq, where the PKK has rear bases which it uses to attack Turkey, it added.

"The damage caused by the raids is in the process of being evaluated after reconnaissance flights over the area," it added.

Turkey resumed its bombing of positions held by the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in the Iraq mountains after a break of more than a year following an attack on Wednesday in southeast Turkey in which nine members of the Turkish security forces were killed.

The army also released footage of the raids showing explosions at "rebel hideouts" and PKK stores of foodstuffs and materiel.