At least 14 police officers have been killed by Kurdish militants in a bomb attack in Turkey, widening a conflict with the Turkish state. <br /><br /> Tuesday’s (September 8) bombing is the latest in a daily stream of attacks by the outlawed PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party) on solders and police in eastern Turkey since fighting resumed in July. <br /><br /> On Sunday the PKK killed 16 soldiers near the Iraqi border.<br /><br /> Turkey responded with warplanes pounding targets in northern Iraq where the group has bases. <br /><br /> President Tayyip Erdogan said the PKK had suffered “serious damage.” <br /><br /> “We have not and will not leave the future of our people to the terrorists, to the members of an organisation of treason and its collaborators,” Erdogan said.<br /><br /> Dozens of F-16 and F-4 jets took part in the Turkish military operation on Monday hitting PKK food and weapons stores as well as the group’s machine gun positions.
