This information was reported by the site The Ministry of Defense of Turkey, reports URA-Inform.
The Turkish Ministry of Defense reported that during an attack carried out by members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party on December 22 in northern Iraq, 12 Turkish soldiers and 13 from Iraq were killed.
And today, December 23, in the region of Operation Claw-Lock, representatives of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, which in Turkey was called a «separatist terrorist organization», tried to infiltrate a Turkish military base.
It is noted that in As a result of the two-day confrontation, both sides suffered losses.
«Six of our heroic comrades were killed, and one of our soldiers was wounded during the outbreak of conflict terrorists who attempted to infiltrate our base on December 23rd in the Operation Claw-Lock region. According to preliminary data, as a result of the conflict, 13 terrorists were neutralized. Surprise air operations are also being carried out against certain targets», — the message says.
Turkish leader Recep Erdogan, speaking in Istanbul, said that the country will not tolerate «terrorist entities» in northern Iraq and Syria.
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