The special forces of the gendarmerie neutralized two more armed terrorists in the Nestler Dereler area in the South-East Turkish Province of Shirnak.
According to the Turkish Ministry of Internal Affairs, the number of militants, neutralized as part of the operation begun on the eve of the operation, reached three. During the liquidation of the militants, UAVs and attack helicopters atak are involved.
Two gendarmes died in a shootout with terrorists, there are wounded.
The department expressed condolences to the families of the dead.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan previously stated that since 1984, when the militants of the RSC for the first time carried out a terrorist attack in Turkey, thousands of employees of Turkish security forces, military and civilians died at the hands of this bloody organization.
The United States and the European Union introduced PKK to the lists of terrorist organizations.
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).