ISTANBUL, Turkey — Turkish warplanes joined Sikorsky and Cobra military helicopters in southeastern Turkey on Wednesday in attacks on the broad mountainous passes that Kurdish separatist rebels use to travel from hide-outs in northern Iraq into Turkey, the state-run Anatolia news agency reported.
The report did not explicitly state whether or how far the aircraft flew inside Iraqi territory.
The attacks are the first time that Turkish warplanes have been employed in assaults against the Kurdish rebels since the fall of Saddam Hussein's government in Iraq, and they follow several days of Turkish shelling. The report did not disclose the number of aircraft used. Some unconfirmed news reports said the Turkish aircraft had flown into Iraqi territory.
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