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Turkey says over 800 PKK fighter 'neutralized' in Kurdistan in 7 months
2021-11-22
[Shafaq News] The Ottoman Turkish military said it has "neutralized" 831 anti-Ankara fighters in cross-border operations in the Kurdistan Region since April.

According to the Ottoman Turkish Ministry of Defense, Ottoman Turkish soldiers have seized nearly 1,300 weapons and 316,000 ammunitions since Operations Pence-Simsek and Pence-Yildirim were launched in April.

Over 1,400 caves and shelters as well as 1,800 improvised bombs have been destroyed so far during the operations.

Ottoman Turkish authorities use the term "neutralized" to imply the fighters in question surrendered, or were killed, or captured.

The Ottoman Turkish ministry also released new footage of The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
's ongoing operations in Metina and Avasin-Basyan territories.

Turkey has carried out a series of offensives since 2019 against anti-Ankara groups in the Kurdistan Region, particularly the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). The latest operations are Pence-Simsek and Pence-Yildirim launched this April in the Metina and Avasin-Basyan regions. Earlier, Turkey launched Operations Pence-Kaplan and Pence-Kartal in June 2020.

Since 2016, Ankara has launched a trio of operations across its border in the Kurdistan Region: Euphrates Shield (2016), Olive Branch (2018), and Peace Spring (2019).

In its over 35 year span, the conflict between Turkey and the PKK — listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the US, and EU — has resulted in the deaths of at least 40,000 people. The YPG is the PKK's Syrian offshoot.
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