An atmosphere strike by Turkish warplanes “neutralized” during slightest 12 militants of a outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in northern Iraq, a troops pronounced on Twitter on Wednesday.
The atmosphere strike carried out on Tuesday targeted a Hakurk segment of northern Iraq, Turkish troops pronounced adding that a militants were believed to be in preparations for an attack.
“12 armed members of a separatist apprehension organization, who were in preparations for an attack, were neutralized in northern Iraq/Hakurk by an atmosphere strike carried out on Mar 20,” a troops said, regulating a tenure it relates to PKK.
Turkey frequently carries out atmosphere strikes opposite PKK targets in northern Iraq, where a organisation is formed in a Qandil mountains.
The PKK, deliberate a militant classification by a United States, a European Union and Turkey, has waged a three-decade rebellion in Turkey’s mostly Kurdish southeast that has killed some 40,000 people.