ANKARA, Turkey — Turkish warplanes have bombed Kurdish rebel bases in northern Iraq, the military said Sunday, two days after rebels killed 15 soldiers in an attack staged partly from Iraqi soil.

The planes bombed Saturday in Iraq's Avasin Basyan region and returned safely to their bases, the military said.

The military's deputy chief, meanwhile, accused leaders in northern Iraq of tolerating the rebels.

"We don't receive any kind of support from the local administration in the northern part of Iraq," Turkey's Gen. Hasan Igsiz said Sunday. "Our expectation from them is to accept that the terrorist organization is a terrorist organization and eliminate the support provided to it."

Turkey's civilian leaders have vowed to respond firmly to the rebels from the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, which has been fighting for autonomy in the southeast since 1984.