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Turkish safety forces “neutralized” 5 PKK terrorists in northern Iraq close to the Turkish border, the Nationwide Protection Ministry mentioned on Saturday.
The terrorists had been focused in an airstrike within the Operation Claw-Lock zone in Metina, the ministry mentioned in a press release.
Turkish authorities use the time period “neutralize” to suggest the terrorists in query surrendered or had been killed or captured.
PKK terrorists usually disguise out throughout the border in northern Iraq to plot terror assaults in Türkiye.
In its greater than 35-year terror marketing campaign in opposition to Türkiye, the PKK – listed as a terrorist group by Türkiye, the US, and EU – has been liable for the deaths of greater than 40,000 individuals, together with girls, youngsters, and infants.
In a separate assertion, the ministry mentioned Enes Kirmizikoc, a Turkish soldier, was killed on Friday after being hit by a helicopter blade.
In the meantime, safety sources mentioned a terrorist earlier “neutralized” by Turkish intelligence in northern Iraq was recognized as Ozgur Alparslan, a PKK terrorist who ordered actions that induced the forest fires in Türkiye in 2021.
The MIT “neutralized” Alparslan, codenamed Ozgur Sores, throughout an operation in Gara in northern Iraq, mentioned the sources, who requested anonymity attributable to restrictions on talking to the media.
Alparslan was within the inexperienced class on Turkish Inside Ministry’s checklist of wished terrorists.
Türkiye’s wished checklist is split into 5 color-coded classes, with crimson as essentially the most wished, adopted by blue, inexperienced, orange, and grey.
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