The TRT channel said four jets took off from Diyarbakir air base in south-east Turkey and used missiles to hit the IS targets in the Syrian village of Havar. Havar is across the border from the Turkish border province of Kilis. TRT said the planes did not violate Syrian airspace.
Hurriyet newspaper said the Turkish F-16s struck three targets close to the Turkish border, including two locations that the extremist group reportedly used as headquarters. The newspaper said the aerial operation was in retaliation for the Isis attack a day earlier and was named Operation Yalcin in honour of the non-commissioned officer who was killed in that attack.
The operation follows a cross-border firefight between Turkish forces and ISIS militants, which left one soldier and at least one militant dead.
Turkey earlier agreed to let the US-led coalition against Isis use the country’s Incirlik air base after one Turkish soldier was killed and two were injured in what appeared to be cross-border clashes with the terror group.
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