Turkish safety forces “neutralized” 11 terrorists in northern Iraq and northern Syria, the National Defense Ministry mentioned on Sunday.
“Our heroic Turkish Armed Forces neutralized 10 PKK terrorists in the Operation Claw-Lock area in northern Iraq and 1 PKK/YPG terrorist identified in the Operation Euphrates Shield region in northern Syria,” the ministry mentioned on X.
“For terrorists, nowhere is safe,” says the ministry.
Turkish authorities use the time period “neutralize” to suggest the terrorists in query surrendered or had been killed or captured.
In its greater than 35-year terror marketing campaign in opposition to Türkiye, the PKK-listed as a terrorist group by Türkiye, the US, and the EU-has been chargeable for the deaths of over 40,000 individuals, together with ladies, kids, and infants.
PKK terrorists typically conceal out in northern Iraq to plot cross-border assaults in Türkiye.
The YPG is the PKK’s Syrian offshoot.
Türkiye launched Operation Claw-Lock in April 2022 to focus on the PKK terror group’s hideouts in Iraq’s northern Metina, Zap, and Avasin-Basyan areas close to the Turkish border.
Ankara has launched a trio of profitable anti-terror operations since 2016 throughout its border in northern Syria to forestall the formation of a PKK/YPG terror hall and allow the peaceable settlement of residents: Euphrates Shield (2016), Olive Branch (2018) and Peace Spring (2019).
Kaynak: AA_ING
Source: www.anews.com.tr