Ankara, Nov 4 (UNI/Sputnik) The Turkish army killed two militants from the Kurdistan Workers' Party in northern Iraq, the Turkish Defence Ministry said on Thursday.
“Two PKK terrorists detected in the Claw-Tiger operation in northern Iraq were neutralized by fire support vehicles,” the ministry tweeted.
Ankara has waged war against the leftist Kurdish armed group since the late 1970s fearing it seeks to galvanize Kurds in Turkey, approximately one-fifth of the population, to seek an independent Kurdish state. The conflict has seen Turkish forces strike blows in northern Iraq and Syria, both of which also have substantial Kurdish populations.