More on this story from yesterday.
[Dawn] 
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund...on Monday said it has launched a new air and ground offensive against outlawed Kurdish
Defence Minister Hulusi Akar said commando units, unmanned aerial vehicles and attack helicopters were pounding Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) hideouts in three restive regions near the
Designated as a terrorist group by Ankara and its Western allies, the PKK has been waging an insurgency against the
Turkey routinely carries out attacks in Iraq, where the PKK has bases and training camps in the Sinjar region and on the mountainous border with Turkey.
"Our heroic pilots successfully struck shelters, caves, tunnels and ammunition depots belonging to the terrorist organization," Akar said.
"A large number of bully boyz were neutralised," he said, adding that the scale of the operation will "further increase in the coming hours and days".
Akar would not say how many troops were involved in the operation, which he said started on Sunday night.
Asked to comment on Turkey’s operation, a PKK front man in Iraq said on condition of anonymity: "The occupation army, which tried to land troops by helicopters, also wanted to advance by land.