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Turkish airstrikes have "neutralized" eight PKK terrorists in northern Iraq and Turkey's southeastern Mardin province, the General Staff said Saturday.
Turkish authorities often use the word "neutralized" in their statements to imply the terrorists in question either surrendered or were killed or captured.
On Twitter, the Turkish General Staff said fighter jets had conducted airstrikes between Friday and Saturday in northern Iraq’s Sinat-Haftanin regions as well as in Omerli district of southeastern Mardin province, Turkey, which is near the Syria and Iraq border.
Turkish officials have recently suggested that Mt. Qandil region -- where the terrorist group has its headquarters -- may be the target of a future operation.
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 death of some 40,000 people, including women and children.
A total of 4,519 terrorists have been “neutralized” since the start of the Turkey-led Operation Olive Branch in Syria's Afrin region, according to the Turkish army on Friday.Turkish authorities often use the word "neutralized" in their statements to imply the terrorists in question either surrendered or were killed or captured.In a weekly statement, the Turkish General Staff said 54 Turkish soldiers have also been martyred while 236 others were injured during the operation in Afrin.Also, 247 mines and 1,301 improvised explosives were destroyed during the operation.Turkey, US agree on clearing Syrian regions of PKKTurkey on Jan. 20 launched Operation Olive Branch to remove YPG/PKK and Daesh terrorists from Afrin. On March 18, Turkish troops and Free Syrian Army liberated the Afrin district center.According to the Turkish General Staff, the operation aims to establish security and stability along Turkey’s borders and the region as well as to protect Syrians from the oppression and cruelty of terrorists.Separately, the Turkish army said it had neutralized 49 terrorists during anti-terror operations in Turkey and northern Iraq over the last week.The operations were conducted in the southeastern Kahramanmaras, Sirnak, Hakkari, Diyarbakir, Mardin and eastern Agri provinces, as well as in northern Iraq between June 29 and July 5, it added.Security forces neutralize 22 PKK terrorists in SE TurkeyDuring the anti-terror operations, 15 weapons including infantry rifles and flame throwers were seized; eight weapon emplacements and shelters were also destroyed.The statement also said four soldiers were injured within this period.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 death of some 40,000 people.Turkey arrests wanted PKK terrorist deported by NorwayThe PYD/YPG are Syrian branches of the terrorist PKK and the focus of Turkey's successful counter-terrorist Operation Olive Branch in Afrin, Syria, near the border with Turkey.The statement also said Turkish and the U.S. army had conducted 10 separate coordinated patrols in the area between the Operation Euphrates Shield region and Manbij since June 18, when the first patrols by Turkish and U.S. troops in the region began.A deal between Turkey and the U.S. has focused on the withdrawal of the PKK-affiliated YPG terror group from Manbij in order to stabilize the region.German intelligence calls PKK, PYD 'sister' groups
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Police arrested PKK terror group member Gülizar Taşdemir, 42, at Istanbul's Atatürk Airport on Thursday.Taşdemir’s arrest came following her deportation from Norway when her asylum request was rejected. During her body search, police seized two cellphones, two SIM cards, three flash memory cards as well as digital material, documents related to the terror group and photographs shot alongside Öcalan.Recruited by the PKK in 1991, Taşdemir received armed training at the Mahmur camp, Iraq, and was with Öcalan, the jailed head of the PKK terrorist organization, for many years.PKK terrorists kill father and mentally disabled son in SE TurkeyIn 2013, the Public Prosecutor's Office in eastern Erzurum had issued an arrest warrant for Taşdemir for membership in an armed terror group.The PKK is listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey as well as the U.S. and the EU. In its terror campaign against Turkey, which has lasted for more than three decades, over 40,000 people have been killed, including women and children.Two PKK terrorists nabbed trying to enter Syria’s Afrin
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Four PKK terrorists were "neutralized" in southeastern Turkey and northern Iraq, according to the military on Tuesday.The Turkish General Staff said on its official Twitter account that four armed terrorists were neutralized in an air operation in Turkey’s southeastern province of Sirnak and northern Iraq's Zap and Avashin-Basyan areas.The operation, which also destroyed shelters and weapon warehouses used by “the separatist terrorist group”, was conducted on Monday, the statement read.Turkish authorities use the term “separatist terrorist group” to refer to the PKK, declared a terrorist organization by Turkey, the U.S. and EU.They also use the term "neutralized" to signify the terrorists in question either surrendered or were killed or captured.The PKK terror group has waged a campaign against Turkey for over three decades resulting in the death of 40,000 people, including women and children.
Four PKK terrorists neutralized in SE Turkey, N. Iraq