The Ministry of National Defense of Turkey announced the prevention of an attempt to penetrate the terrorist group of 12 people into the zone of operation “Source of the World” in the north of Syria.
The fighters of the Turkish special forces successfully prevented an attempt to penetrate the terrorist group of 12 people to the north of Syria, the department said.
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“Terrorists, who prepared the attack last night and tried to penetrate the zone of the Operation” Source of the World “, were neutralized using fire support means. 9 PKK/YPG terrorists were neutralized,” the message said.
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).