The Turkish military has carried out airstrikes against Kurdish militias in northern Iraq for the second day in a row, the Defence Ministry announced on Sunday evening. It said 10 fighters from the banned Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) had been put out of action – a term the Ankara government usually uses when referring to people it killed, injured or captured. The airstrikes are a reaction to an attack on a Turkish military base in northern Iraq on Friday, in which at least nine Turkish soldiers were killed and four others injured in battles with PKK fighters. Since then, the Turkish air forc…