Turkey's mini "wasp" drone.
Eighteen Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) terrorists, including three senior operatives, responsible for the death of 103 Turkish troops were neutralized in a Turkish Armed Forces (TAF) operation conducted by a miniature drone that lasted 504 hours (21 days).
The operation dubbed “Dagger 2” that was launched on Oct. 11 in southeast Turkey utilized the “wasp” drone.
The digital material captured from terrorists neutralized in Gabar was deciphered, as well as the coded messages sent using radios.
The PKK terrorists’ location was found using photographs published in an interview they gave, and their coordinates were found.
Over the course of 2018, Turkish security forces have neutralized 73 top YPG/PKK/KCK terrorists in operations at home and abroad, according to an Anadolu Agency analysis of official data.Turkish authorities often use the word "neutralized" in their statements to imply the terrorists in question either surrendered of were killed or captured.According to Turkish security forces' data on counter-terror operations carried out from Jan. 1 to Nov.17, among the 73 neutralized were 13 on the top, red category of the Interior Ministry's most wanted list.In descending order of priority on the color-coded most wanted list, of the other terrorists neutralized, five were in the blue category, six in the green, eight in the orange, and 41 in the grey category.Reward money for those terrorists totaled almost 83 million Turkish lira ($15 million).Some senior terrorists neutralizedOn June 28, Sefer Acar, codenamed "Welat Gever," was neutralized during an operation in the eastern Bitlis province.Acar, in the red category, carried out a terrorist attack on Turkish gendarmes during an operation in northern Iraq two decades ago. In the 1998 attack, a Sikorsky helicopter was shot down, martyring 15 soldiers.On Aug. 15, a senior PKK/KCK figure in Iraq's northern Sinjar province, Ismail Ozden, codenamed Mam Zeki Sengali, was neutralized in a joint operation by the Turkish Armed Forces and the National Intelligence Organization (MIT).Ozden, 66, was reportedly the first PKK/KCK terrorist in the red category to be neutralized by Turkey in an operation abroad.Ibrahim Coban, codenamed "Atakan Mahir" in the red category, was the top PKK terrorist in the Dersim region for the past 25 years. He was killed on Aug. 11 in the eastern Tunceli province.Baris Oner, codenamed "Turk Tarik," another PKK terrorist in the red category, was neutralized on Aug. 19.Oner carried out several terrorist attacks in 2016 and 2018 in the Black Sea province of Giresun. In 2016 he martyred a sergeant and attacked a gendarmerie building in Giresun with a rocket launcher. On July 9, Oner martyred another sergeant in a rural area in Giresun.On July 15, Mehmet Yakisir, codenamed "Zeynel," the top PKK terrorist in the Black Sea region, was also neutralized.Yakisir, who was in the red category of Turkey’s wanted list, had killed 15-year-old Eren Bulbul last August in Macka district of Trabzon province.In its more than 30-year terror campaign against Turkey, the PKK -- listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the U.S. and the EU -- has been responsible for the deaths of nearly 40,000 people, including women and children.
Turkey neutralizes 73 wanted PKK terrorists in 2018
Following this, the silent “wasp” drone was dispatched, and on Nov. 2, the terrorists were killed in groups.
The wasp drone was also used during Turkey's Operation Olive Branch in Syria's Afrin to monitor PKK terrorists.
The PKK is listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the European Union and the United States. The PKK has been conducting armed violence in the southeastern part of Turkey since 1984. More than 40,000 people, mostly civilians, have been killed in the three-decade long conflict.
The Norwegian “wasp" drone utilized by the Turkish Armed Forces (TAF) in Operation Olive Branch monitors Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) terrorists and ensures that troops do not fall into terrorist traps.
TAF uses ‘wasp’ drone to monitor PKK terrorists in Afrin op