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Turkish air raid killed 35 in Iraq border area: official


Thursday, 29 December, 2011 , 11:29

ANKARA, Dec 29, 2011 (AFP) — Turkish air strikes on Kurdish targets in the Iraqi border area have killed 35 people, the Turkish authorities in the region said, raising an earlier death toll of 23.

"Thirty-five people were killed and another person wounded in an aerial operation in Iraq," the Sirnak provincial governor's office said in a statement.