ANKARA, May 6, 2009 (Xinhua News Agency) -- Ten rebels of the banned Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) were killed in a Turkish air strike last week targeting its hideouts in northern Iraq, the Anatolia news agency reported on Wednesday.

On April 30, the air strike also destroyed several hideouts in the Zap (OTCBB:ZAAP) and Avashin-Basyan regions and weapons depots used by PKK militants, according to the report.

The Turkish Air Forces' operation came after 10 soldiers of the Turkish security forces were killed in two separate terror attacks in southeastern Turkey.

The PKK, which took up arms in 1984 to create an ethnic homeland in southeastern Turkey, uses northern Iraq as a base for launching attacks in eastern and southeastern Turkey.

Turkish forces took tougher actions against PKK after the country's legislature extended the government's mandate to launch cross-border operations against the rebels in northern Iraq.