(Map Form the Washington Institute)From The Washington Post:
ANKARA/ARBIL (Reuters) - Turkish warplanes and artillery attacked 31 Kurdish rebel bases on Friday as part of a week-long operation in northern Iraq after an attack that killed 17 Turkish soldiers, the military said.
Ahmed Danees, spokesman for the rebel Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in Iraq, said that new shelling had taken place in mountainous areas inside Iraq for about an hour on Saturday but gave no further details.
The Turkish president said on Saturday for the first time publicly that Ankara was talking to the Iraqi Kurdish government about acting against the PKK, which launches attacks on Turkey from bases in northern Iraq.
Turkey has in the past publicly shunned the Iraqi Kurds, blaming them for not doing enough to drive out the PKK, and said it was dealing with the central government in Baghdad.
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