Co-chair Muhammad Hassan told NRT Digital Media that the dead and wounded were civilians.

“We do not know about the exact number of casualties due to continuous flying by the warplanes,” Hassan said.

“There are no PKK fighters at the site where the airstrike took place, just civilians,” he asserted.

In a separate airstrike earlier on Thursday evening, Turkish warplanes bombed Khwakurk Mountain in the Sidakan areas of Erbil governorate killing one and wounding four others.

The Turkish military routinely carries out airstrikes and artillery bombardments in the Kurdistan Region against suspected PKK targets, but their frequency has increased since Ankara launched “Operation Claw” in May, as have civilian casualties.

The PKK uses the Kurdistan Region’s rugged Qandil Mountains as its headquarters to plan and coordinate fight against the Turkish state.

Ankara has long objected to the presence of these bases and has urged Baghdad and Erbil to do more to prevent the PKK from using them to plan operations.

Turkey also maintains a network of twenty-one bases in Duhok and Erbil governorates and has deployed units approximately 30 kilometers into the territory of the Kurdistan Region, some of which have come under attack from PKK fighters.

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