ISTANBUL: Turkish security forces “neutralized” three PKK terrorists in northern Iraq, Trkiye’s National Defense Ministry announced Wednesday.
The ministry said on X that the terrorists “identified in the Operation Claw region in northern Iraq were neutralized.”
Trkiye launched Operation Claw-Lock in April 2022 to target the PKK terror organization’s hideouts in Iraq’s northern Metina, Zap, and Avasin-Basyan regions near the Turkish border.
It was preceded by Operations Claw-Tiger and Claw-Eagle launched in 2020 to root out terrorists hiding out in northern Iraq and plotting cross-border attacks in Trkiye.
Turkish authorities use the term “neutralize” to imply the terrorists in question surrendered or were killed or captured.
In its more than 35-year terror campaign against Trkiye, the PKK – listed as a terrorist organization by Trkiye, the US, UK, and EU – has been responsible for the deaths of more than 40,000 people, including women, children, and infants.
Source: Anadolu Agency