Turkey carried out air strikes Tuesday in northern Iraq against rebelKurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) positions, causing casualties, authorities in Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region said. “Turkish warplanes targeted several positions of Kurdistan Workers’ Party fighters,” particularly in the Makhmur and Sinjar regions, Kurdish counter-terrorism services said in a statement. “Turkish military aircraft bombed six PKK positions in the Karjokh mountains,” said the statement. It also referred to strikes on two positions in the Sinjar mountains and an adjacent area in neighbouring Syria, as well as t…