The Turkish Ministry of Defense announced the killing of one of its officers in an armed attack by a group of Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants in northern Iraq.
The Turkish Defense Ministry said in a statement today, Saturday, that one of its officers was killed in an attack by the PKK militants in the Operations Sector / Claw Lock / in northern Iraq, but it did not mention his name or rank.
In its statement, the Turkish defense indicated that one of the Turkish army units launched an attack on a hideout of the OKK’s fighters in the Operation Claw Lock sector and managed to kill two of them in revenge for the killing of the Turkish officer.
It is noteworthy that the Turkish defense had announced earlier that seven officers and 47 soldiers had been killed in its operations against the PKK militants in northern Iraq, bringing what the Turkish Defense officially announced in terms of the losses of the Turkish army in the operations of what it called / Claw Lock / killing eight officers and 48 soldiers and wounding 32 others since it began its operations on the eighteenth of April last year.
The Turkish army carried out a large-scale military operation on April 18 of last year, and it is still ongoing, named Claw Lock, against the strongholds of the PKK in the regions of Matina, Zab, Afshin and Bazian in northern Iraq.
Source: National Iraqi News Agency