Turkey confirms attacks on PKK militant camps in Iraq: statement

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A Turkish Air Force A400M tactical transport aircraft (foreground) is parked at Incirlik airbase in the southern city of Adana, Turkey, July 24, 2015. REUTERS/Murad Sezer

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish fighter jets launched attacks on camps of the militant Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in northern Iraq overnight, the prime minister's office said in a statement on Saturday, confirming earlier media reports. Turkey simultaneously launched ground attacks against the PKK and Islamic State in northern Syria, it said. (Reporting by Ece Toksabay and Gulsen Solaker; Writing by David Dolan; Editing by Paul Tait)