Turkish military planes hit terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) positions in southeastern Turkey in response to continuous attacks on a military outpost, the Hürriyet daily reported Tuesday.
F-16 and F-4 jets took off from military bases in Malatya and Diyarbakır and hit PKK targets that had been attacking a military outpost in the Dağlıca region. The terrorists had been targeting the outpost with rockets for three days.
According to the daily, the fighter jets took off after the terrorists resumed their attacks on Monday afternoon despite an immediate response from soldiers protecting the outpost.
The air operation is the most comprehensive one since the government launched what it calls the settlement process aimed at solving the decades-old Kurdish issue, the daily said. It added that the air strikes caused "major damage" to the PKK.
The PKK said the military violated the ceasefire agreed under the two-year-old settlement process with the air strikes.
The PKK's military wing said in a statement on its website that its forces had not suffered casualties during the strikes in the Dağlıca area of Hakkari province.
The PKK, designated a terrorist group by Turkey, the United States and the European Union, waged a 30-year war for autonomy in Turkey's rugged Southeast.
At the end of 2012, the government launched the settlement process to resolve once and for all the country's terrorism problem and Kurdish issue through talks with Abdullah Öcalan, the imprisoned leader of the PKK.
Senior leaders from the group have recently threatened the collapse of the process due to Turkey's current policy of non-intervention in the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant's (ISIL) battle for the Syrian town of Kobani.