Turkey: Turkey says it killed 100 Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) kurdish rebels in Iraq
Turkey’s military said Tuesday its air strikes on suspected Kurdish rebel targets in northern Iraq this week have killed an estimated 90 to 100 guerrillas and warned that it would press ahead with offensives against the group both inside Turkey and across the border.
In a statement posted on its website, the military also said more than 80 rebels were injured in six days of cross-border air raids that began on Wednesday, hours after eight soldiers and a government-paid village guard were killed in an ambush by the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, near the border with Iraq.
“According to initial information obtained, between 90 and 100 terrorists were rendered ineffective, more than 80 wounded terrorists were moved to hospitals or villages, and contact with a high number of terrorists was cut,” the military said. “Rendered ineffective” is a term used by the military to refer to rebels killed.