Follow-up – Al-Rasheed
The Turkish Ministry of Defense announced today, Saturday, that the army had neutralized 11 members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, in the “Hakurk” and “Gara” regions in northern Iraq.
The ministry said in a statement that it “will continue to carry out its operations with determination until the last terrorist is neutralized,” according to the statement.
This comes after the announcement yesterday, Friday, of the killing of a Turkish soldier and the injury of another, in an attack by the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, which Ankara classifies as a terrorist organization, in northern Iraq.
In this regard, the Turkish Ministry of Defense said in another statement on its page on the “X” platform, “The Kurdistan Workers’ Party is acting inhumanely, disregarding the lives of civilians, as it established an ammunition depot on both sides of a mosque in the village of Darjila, northern Iraq, and blew it up.”
The statement added, “Ammunition warehouses were discovered around the church in the village of Miska. It turned out that tons of explosives, ammunition and weapons were stored in one of the houses near the church, and the local administration and Peshmerga were informed of the condition of the house.”
On April 17, 2022, the Turkish army launched Operation Claw-Lock against PKK strongholds in the Metina, Zap and Avşin-Basyan regions of northern Iraq.
