Ankara launched Operation Claw-Lock final April to focus on the terrorist group PKK’s hideouts within the Metina, Zap, and Avasin-Basyan areas of northern Iraq, close to the Turkish border.
(AA Archive)
Since the cross-border operation began final April, Türkiye has neutralised a complete of 506 terrorists as far as a part of Operation Claw-Lock in northern Iraq, the National Defence Ministry mentioned.
The ministry organised a media tour of the anti-terror operation space – simply throughout the Turkish border into Iraq, an space terrorists use as a hideout – which incorporates troublesome climate and terrain circumstances, a press release mentioned on Saturday.
Reporters noticed terrorist components being hit from the border line from a hill at an altitude of roughly 2,050 meters (6,726 toes).
Reporters had been instructed that 575 terrorist caves, bunkers, and shelters have been destroyed and over 2,000 mines/handmade explosives, 1,182 weapons, and almost 540,000 items of ammunition seized.
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Türkiye launched Operation Claw-Lock final April to focus on the terrorist group PKK’s hideouts within the Metina, Zap, and Avasin-Basyan areas of northern Iraq, close to the Turkish border.
It was preceded by two operations – Claw-Tiger and Claw-Eagle – launched in 2020 to root out terrorists hiding out in northern Iraq and plotting cross-border assaults in Türkiye.
In its greater than 35-year terror marketing campaign, the PKK – listed as a terrorist group by Türkiye, the US, and EU – has been chargeable for the deaths of greater than 40,000 folks, together with ladies, kids, and infants.
Source: AA
