Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s recent statement regarding the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) prove that new wave of violence against the Kurdish population is approaching, an Armenian expert said.

“Repressions are likely to start late August,” Anush Hovhannisyan told a news conference in Yerevan.

According to her, Turkish officials’ statements about talks with the Kurdish leaders are nothing but imitation.

Turkish warplanes and heavy artillery struck Kurdish guerrilla targets in northern Iraq in a third consecutive night of raids. In a statement on its website, Turkey's General Staff said fighter planes had hit 20 rebel targets in Qandil mountain, Sinath-Haftanin, Hakurk and Gara in northern Iraq, adding the planes had all returned to their bases.