Back to that again

The AFP has the story of an old war firing up again:

The Turkish army on Monday stepped up operations against Kurdish rebels, bombing their hideouts both in neighbouring Iraq and inside Turkey after 17 soldiers were killed in a rebel attack last week. The government meanwhile pondered new measures to curb the separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), among them legal changes requested by the security forces to strengthen their hand in the struggle.
Fighter jets targeted PKK militants holed up in the Avasin Basyan area inside northern Iraq, following an initial operation Sunday night in which Turkish forces fired artillery at two other rebel groups detected in the same region along the border, the military said. The raid -- the third inside northern Iraq since PKK militants crossing from their camps in the area attacked a Turkish border outpost -- was "successful," it said, without mentioning rebel casualties. Later in the day, fighter jets also struck PKK hideouts in the Buzul mountains in Turkey's southeast, close to the scene of Friday's attack, the military said.
It also announced that the bodies of two soldiers who were missing since Friday were found, bringing the death toll to 17.
Clashes following the brazen daytime assault on the outpost left at least 23 PKK rebels dead, making the confrontation the bloodiest between the army and the militants this year, according to the army. The PKK said earlier Monday it had the bodies of two soldiers. It also claimed to have killed 62 troops and wounded more than 30, while putting its own losses at nine.