Türkiye says it has killed 17 Kurdish "terrorists" in Syria and Iraq

15 June, 2024 , , , , ,
Turkish special forces troops Photo illustration: President.az CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

The Turkish Government He assured this Saturday that he has killed 17 militants from Kurdish groups, whom he described as "terrorists", in operations in northern Iraq and Syria, without giving more details.


The Turkish Ministry of Defense assured on the social network

The Turkish Defense Ministry linked these deaths to Operation Claw Lock, a series of military interventions launched since 2019 in a border strip about 30 kilometers wide south of the Turkish border, in mountainous terrain in Iraq where the PKK has bases.


Furthermore, according to that message, 9 members of the PKK/YPG have been eliminated in northern Syria, where Turkey has troops deployed.

The YPG It is the Syrian Kurdish militia, which Ankara does not distinguish from the PKK but which for the United States is an ally in the fight against the Islamic State jihadist group.


The PKK began its armed confrontation with the Turkish state in 1983 to demand self-determination for Turkey's Kurdish minority, a demand that is now limited to asking for more political and cultural rights.

In the more than 40 years of fighting between Kurdish forces and guerrillas, more than 45.000 people have died.

For months, the Turkish Government has been announcing a massive military operation in northern Iraq to guarantee security on the border.

Since 2016, Turkey has launched several military interventions in Syria, where it controls and occupies a wide strip of land on the border between the two countries. EFE

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11 thoughts on “Türkiye says it has killed 17 Kurdish “terrorists” in Syria and Iraq”
    1. Nobody helps or defends the Kurds... Europe, the US condemns them and calls them terrorists... greater cynicism and hypocrisy than those complicit in the destruction of Kurdistan impossible

  1. YES, YES TURKEY YOU KILL CIVILIANS IS NOT GENOCIDE THE UN ISLAMIC REPUBLIC SUPPORTS YOU, BUT ISRAEL TO DEFEND THE PEOPLE AND THE COUNTRY IS GENOCIDE??? LONG LIVE ISRAEL.

    1. I agree with Joseba84. The land of the Kurds was given by dividing it between Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey and other genocidal countries.

  2. Turkey, Iran, Syria, Iraq and others have stolen the lands of the Kurdish ethnic group because of the great powers that many decades ago made unjust territorial divisions, leaving the Kurds without their lands. And what has the UN done? NOTHING, NOTHING, NOTHING!, WHILE THE KURDS ARE MASSACRED BY SEVERAL COUNTRIES.

    1. IT IS GRATEFUL FOR SUPPORTING THE KURDISH PEOPLE. IT IS NOTED THAT THERE WERE MANY ETHNICITY OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE WHO LIVED IN KURDISTAN. LONG LIVE ISRAEL.

    2. THANK YOU AGAIN, ONE IN IRANIAN KURDISTAN WENT TO OTHER CITIES IN IRAN, THAT'S WHY THE JEWISH PEOPLE ARE BELOVED BY IRANIANS.

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