Seventy suspected members of the militant Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) have been killed in a vast operation against the group in the mainly Kurdish southeast over the past four days, the army said Saturday.
Eight PKK rebels have been killed since Friday, taking the death toll in the unprecedented offensive by the army and police on pro-PKK bastions in three towns and cities to 70, the army said on its website.
The army also said it had carried out airstrikes Friday on PKK “hideouts” and “weapons sites” across the border in northern Iraq, where the outlawed group has its rear bases.
A Turkish soldier was killed in the operations Saturday, bringing the death toll on the army side to two.
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