Turkey went on with its offensive against the Kurds on its border with northern Iraq Saturday, in its operations that have lasted for the last three days.

Turkey went on with its offensive against the Kurds on its border with northern Iraq Saturday, in its operations that have lasted for the last three days.

24 Turkish Soldiers have been killed till now and residents said they saw a convoy of 43 military trucks returning from the north of Iraq where members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) were holed up, AFP reported, adding that the operation was taking place in Kazan valley in Hakkari province in the Southeast.

PKK members killed 24 soldiers and wounded 18 others Wednesday on the Turkish-Iraqi borders, which urged the Turkish military to launch air and land operations against PKK bases.

In a statement issued Friday on its website , the Turkish military said that the majority of the land and air operations where taking placing inside Turkey, mainly in the “Cukurca” region -the combat zone of the latest PKK attacks-. However, AFP have reported earlier that public movement have been limited in most of Iraq’s northern provinces due to the residents’ fear of Turkey’s military strikes.