Over the past week, the Turkish Armed Forces neutralized 60 terrorists, including in the north of Iraq and Syria. This was announced at a briefing for the media, the official representative of the Ministry of National Defense of Turkey of the Zeki Akturk.
According to him, since the beginning of this year, during the operations of the Turkish security forces, 458 terrorists, mainly members of the RSC/KSK/PYD-YPG, DeASH and FETö, were neutralized. The speaker clarified that they are 184 neutralized in the north of Iraq, another 274 – in the north of Syria
Akturk added that until today, 824 terrorist has been neutralized as part of the Turkish military in the north of Iraq Pençe-Kilit (“Claw-Claw”). He emphasized that “anti -terrorist operations in the region will continue with all determination.”
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that since 1984, when the militants of the RSC for the first time had carried out a bloody crime in Turkey, and until March 2020, 7,500 security forces of Turkey and 6,800 civilians were killed at the hands of this bloody organization.
The United States and the European Union introduced PKK to the lists of terrorist organizations.
Despite Ankara’s attempts to find ways to settle the situation, the PKK terrorist organization has resumed armed attacks since July 2015.
In recent years, PKK seeks to shift responsibility for bloody crimes in the region to its branches.
In Syria, PKK terrorists are covered by the names Pyd and YPG, and in the last two years they call themselves “Syrian democratic forces.”
In Iran, PKK acts as “Party of Free Life of Kurdistan” (pjak).