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Turkey, PKK publish casualty statistics for ongoing Kurdistan Region operation |
2022-11-16 |
[Rudaw] ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... and the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) have released conflicting casualty figures for an ongoing military operation in the Kurdistan Region, seven months after Ankara launched the operation targeting PKK positions. The Turkey often uses the term "neutralize" to refer to combatants killed or injured on the battlefield. The People's Defense Forces (HPG), the armed wing of the PKK, stated that 2,544 "invading" soldiers of the ![]() in the ongoing festivities, according to a statement from the group on Tuesday. Operation Claw-Lock was launched by Turkey on April 18, with the goal of targeting PKK positions Metina, Zap, Avashin, and Basyan areas in northern Duhok province along the "We are approaching the end, as the entire Claw-Lock Operation Area is about to be taken under control. We will clear Zap from faceless myrmidons and thus lock up all our borders," Akar stated, referring to Zap area in Duhok province — the last remaining pathway for the PKK from the Kurdistan Region into Turkey. The PKK is a Kurdish gang struggling for the increased cultural and political rights of Kurds in Turkey and is designated as a terrorist organization by Ankara, which has launched several cross-border operations southward in the Kurdistan Region targeting positions of the group. Last month, the PKK-affiliated Firat News Agency (ANF) published several videos purportedly showing The A deadly blast in Istanbul on Sunday which killed six and injured at least 81 was attributed to the PKK by the The PKK denied responsibility for the deadly bombing the next day, saying "we have nothing to do with this incident and it is well-known by the public that we would not target civilians directly or approve of actions directed at civilians," and the YPG also denied involvement while expressing condolences to the victims' families. More than 500 villages have been emptied in the Kurdistan Region over three decades of the Turkey-PKK conflict. |
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