From 1983 to 1999 the Turkish army has carried out all together 24 military operations against the Kurdistan Workers Party. Throughout all this time about 30.000 people were killed from both parties. So the latest bombing of the indicated bases of the Kurdish separatists in the North of Iraq is neither the first, and unfortunately, nor the last one. The official representatives of Turkey announced that the offensive aimed at the Kurdistan Workers Party's bases, situated along the border of Turkey and Iraq. "The attacks aimed at the terrorist movements. They have by no means been organized against the civil population of North Iraq," says the statement made by the Turkish military department.