Istanbul – Archyde.com
The Turkish Ministry of Defense said, “Neutralizing” nine members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in two operations in northern Iraq.
“Our operations will continue until the last terrorist is neutralized,” the ministry said on Twitter, adding that the army had targeted seven members of the group.
In a separate report, Anadolu Agency reported that the Turkish intelligence service “neutralised” two members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in Sulaymaniyah, Iraq.
Turkey regularly launches air strikes in neighboring Iraq as part of its crackdown on militants of the party, which launched an insurgency once morest the Turkish state in 1984, leading to a conflict that has killed more than 40,000 people. Turkey, the United States and the European Union consider it a terrorist group.
