By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Turkish warplanes bombed suspected Kurdish rebel positions in northern Iraq and southeast Turkey on Tuesday, in new air strikes responding to an attack that killed 17 soldiers at a military outpost four days ago.
It was the fourth round of air strikes on Kurdish positions since Friday's attack when rebels fired mortar rounds and artillery from Iraq at a military outpost in a Turkish valley.
Friday's attack has caused outrage in Turkey and a nationalist opposition leader called on the government to immediately send ground troops across the border to chase the rebels who strike at Turkey from Iraqi territory.
Devlet Bahceli, the leader of the Nationalist Action Party, also demanded that Turkey's leaders set up a security zone inside Iraq that would allow the military to better patrol the border and prevent rebel infiltration. The Turkish-Iraqi border lies on a rugged, mountainous strip that is difficult to control.
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