Iran Press/ West Asia: Turkish jets destroyed 29 bunkers, shelters, caves, and oil facilities across the Metina, Hakurk, Gara, and Qandil regions in northern Iraq and Syria, according to Turkey’s defense ministry.
The ministry said the sites belonged to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and the People’s Protection Units (YPG), a Syrian-Kurdish group at the forefront of the U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State (ISIS).
Turkish security forces, and the National Intelligence Organization (MIT) eliminated over 30 PKK terrorists, including a senior militant who recruited terrorists from European countries, in response to the brutal terrorist attack that martyred nine Turkish soldiers on Friday, Turkey’s defense ministry added.
Turkey considers both the PKK and YPG to be terrorist organizations and regularly bombs their enclaves in Syria and Iraq.
The latest attack came hours after PKK fighters assaulted a Turkish army base in northern Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdish region on Friday.
The militant group killed nine Turkish soldiers and wounded another four, losing 15 of its men in the operation.
Last month, two separate attacks on Turkish bases in northern Iraq killed a dozen Turkish soldiers.
Ankara has operated several dozen military posts in the area for the past 25 years in its decades-old fight against the PKK.
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