On Monday the parliament of Iraq condemned Turkey’s air attacks on the northern territories of Iraq. They named them a “cruel attack” to the authority of the country.

The parliament issued a statement which said: "We strongly condemn this cruel attack on Iraqi sovereignty and on the principle of friendly neighborhood,” AFP reports. It also said that the bombings killed several innocent civilians.

The Kurdish regional government sent on Monday a team to see the places that were bombarded by Turkish airplanes which were said to be Kurdish separatist hideouts, CNN News informs.

According to Jamal Abdullah, the spokesman of the Kurdish Regional Government, the team visited the Qalat Dizah area to evaluate the losses.

One woman and four others were killed in the bombing.

Abdullah said: "The PKK has given the Turkish government and military the excuse to carry out such operations. We ask the Turkish government stand by what it had pledged at the beginning of this latest conflict that it has no problem with the people or the government of the Kurdish region, so why are civilians in the Kurdish region getting affected? They have to distinguish between civilians in struggle areas and PKK elements."

Turkish airplanes attacked some villages on Sunday located in northern Iraq in order to hit the bases of the rebel Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).

According to PKK, seven people got killed.

Locals are saying that schools and bridges were damaged during the attacks in the foothills of the Qandil Mountains at the border.

The Iraqi parliament asked Turkey to put an end to the military approach and to try to solve the problem with PKK trough dialogue.  

The statement said: "We call upon our neighbor Turkey to adopt the route of dialogue and wisdom to solve internal issues."

BBC said on its website that the U.S. is not acknowledging the fact that Washington agreed the Turkish strikes.

Yasar Buyukanit, Ankara's most senior general, said on Sunday that the U.S. approved in a tacit way the attacks and offered “intelligence” for the operation.

One U.S. embassy official was quoted by the BBC as saying that they didn’t approved the strikes, but they knew about them.