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Four people were killed on Friday morning in a Turkish drone strike in , Kurdish counter-terror forces said.

The droneÌýtargeted a "Jeep-type car" carrying militants from the in the district of Kalar, Sulaimaniyah province, the Directorate General of Counter-Terrorism .

Four people in the car were killed, and a fifth taken to hospital for treatment, according to the statement.

The PKK, a Kurdish guerilla force founded to fight for more Kurdish autonomy in Turkey,Ìýhas battled Turkish forces for decades in a conflict that has killed 40,000 people, many of them civilians.Ìý

Turkey regularly conducts in neighbouring Iraqi Kurdistan to root out the PKK, which has bases in the area. Civilians are often caught in the crossfire.

Ankara has also to launch a new operation against Kurdish forces in northern Syria with ties to the PKK.

The attack in Kalar follows Ìýin theÌýYazidi heartland of Sinjar on Wednesday - including a strike on a marketplace thatÌý.