2023-12-27 12:58:24
The Turkish military has again carried out air strikes against suspected Kurdish militias in northern Syria and Iraq. 71 targets were attacked, the Defense Ministry announced on Wednesday. 59 “terrorists were neutralized”. As a rule, the government in Ankara means that people have been killed, injured or captured.
The attacks followed clashes with the banned Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in northern Iraq, in which, according to the Turkish military, at least twelve Turkish soldiers were killed on Friday and Saturday. The information could not be independently verified.
The PKK, which is on the terrorist list in Turkey, Europe and the United States, has its headquarters in the Qandil Mountains in northern Iraq. Tens of thousands of people have already been killed in the decades-long conflict with the Turkish state. A peace process failed in 2015. Since then, Ankara has again taken regular action against the PKK in southeastern Turkey and northern Iraq, which in turn has carried out attacks.
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