The Turkish military neutralized 9 members of the Red Army/YPG terrorist organization in the north of Syria and Iraq. This is stated in the message of the Ministry of National Defense of Turkey, published on the social network.
“Our heroic armed forces of Turkey neutralized 4 PKK terrorists in the Pençe-Kielit (” Claw-Coin “operation zone) in the north of Iraq, 5 Red Army Terrorists in the North of Syria in the Operations Zone” Source of the World “and the Münbich area, – says in the message.
The department emphasized, the Armed Forces of Turkey will continue to conduct an uncompromising struggle against terrorism with the same determination with which it has been done so far.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that since 1984, when the militants of the RSC first 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).