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Turkey launches second wave of airstrikes on PKK in Iraq
http://www.dw.com/en/turkey-launches-second-wave-of-airstrikes-on-pkk-in-iraq/a-18608830Turkish warplanes have bombed Kurdish camps in northern Iraq for a second night, threatening a fragile truce. The move comes as Ankara made a formal request to NATO for an extraordinary meeting.
Turkey launches second wave of airstrikes on PKK in Iraq
26.07.2015
For a second night, Turkish warplanes bombarded Kurdish targets in northern Iraq.
Turkey first conducted airstrikes on the Kurdistan Workers Party's (PKK) insurgent camps on late Friday into early Saturday morning, marking the heaviest strikes by Turkish forces on PKK targets since August 2011.
The airstrikes threaten to undermine a fragile truce held between the government and the PKK since 2013 with the PKK saying on Sunday that the conditions of the ceasefire were no longer in place.
Turkey calls on NATO
The airstrikes come on the heels of Turkey's formal request to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) for an extraordinary meeting.
