Türkiye ‘neutralizes’ 4 PKK/YPG terrorists in northern Syria

Published January 02,2024

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Turkish safety forces “neutralized” 4 PKK/YPG terrorists in northern Syria, the National Defense Ministry mentioned on Tuesday.

The terrorists, who had been plotting an assault on Turkish troopers, had been focused in Operation Euphrates Shield zone, in response to the ministry.

Turkish authorities use the time period “neutralize” to indicate the terrorists in query surrendered or had been killed or captured.

The anti-terror operation got here after the Dec. 29 PKK terror assault that killed 12 Turkish troopers in northern Iraq. Turkish airstrikes, since then, have destroyed dozens of terror targets in northern Iraq and Syria, and neutralized a number of senior terrorists.

PKK terrorists typically conceal in northern Iraq to plot cross-border assaults in Türkiye. The group additionally has a Syrian department, often called the YPG.

Since 2016, Ankara has launched a trio of profitable anti-terror operations throughout its border in northern Syria to forestall the formation of a terror hall and allow the peaceable settlement of residents: Euphrates Shield (2016), Olive Branch (2018), and Peace Spring (2019).

In its greater than 35-year terror marketing campaign towards Türkiye, the PKK-listed as a terrorist group by Türkiye, the U.S., and EU-has been answerable for the deaths of greater than 40,000 individuals, together with ladies, kids, and infants.