Turkey has revived calls for a “safe zone” in conflict-wracked northern Syria as it takes dramatic action to counter what it claims to be a twin threat of terror attacks from Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and Kurdish opposition forces.
Turkish F-16 jets mounted more raids against bases of the PKK, the outlawed Kurdish separatist group, in neighbouring Iraq’s Kurdistan Autonomous Region on Saturday - an unexpected add-on to Friday’s strikes against Isil targets in Syria.
Turkish officials defended the attacks, which threaten to shatter an official ceasefire with the PKK.