According to the German Press Agency on December 27, the Turkish Ministry of Defense said on the 27th that the ** team launched air strikes against 71 Kurdish targets in northern Syria and Iraq, which was a response to the bloody clashes that occurred over the weekend.
According to the report, Turkish Defense Minister Yashar Güler said on the official website of the Ministry of Defense: "A total of 59 *** were eliminated in air strikes and clashes." ”
Ankara often uses the word "extermination" to refer to the killing or capture of PKK fighters.
The report also said that Turkey has launched a military operation in the border area between Iraq and Syria, after it was reported that at least 12 Turkish soldiers were killed in clashes between Turkish forces and the Kurdistan Workers' Party in northern Iraq on the 22nd and 23rd.
Turkey's ** Erdogan said at a meeting in Ankara on the 27th that the intensity of the operation has intensified in the past 36 hours, and he vowed to avenge "our martyrs".
Decades of conflict between Turkey and the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which is considered a terrorist organization by the European Union and the United States, have killed tens of thousands of people.
Turkey considers the PKK to be a *** threat. Ankara controls a number of areas in northern Syria and has military bases in northern Iraq with the aim of driving the PKK and its affiliates away from the border. (Compiled by Yang Xinpeng).