Ankara: 16 terrorists were killed in northern Iraq and Syria

reported by Mehr News Agency, according to Anatolia news agency, the Ministry of Defense of Turkey, during a statement in a meeting held through video conference with the presence of the senior commanders of the country’s armed forces, on Sunday, decided not to carry out operations against PKK terrorists in Iraq and Syria reported.

The Ministry of Defense of Turkey continued: a total of 16 terrorists were killed in operations and clashes.

In the aforementioned statement, he emphasized the continuation of his country’s anti-terrorist campaign and claimed: This campaign will continue until the last terrorist is killed.

This is while the Turkish Intelligence Organization (MET) announced earlier that nearly 50 targets of the PKK terrorist group in Ain al-Arab, Qamishli and Amuda in northern Syria, where some of the leaders of this group are located It has destroyed those who were present.

According to security sources, some of the targets were facilities related to the production of supplies needed by this terrorist group, including clothes and weapons.

On October 9, 2019, the Turkish army, with the participation of the armed forces under its support in northern Syria, began an operation called the Peace Spring in the east of the Euphrates River, during which it was able to control the two cities of Tal Abyad and take over Ras al-Ain.

It should be said that Turkey, in recent years, under the pretext of fighting PKK terrorists, contrary to the United Nations Charter in the necessity of not violating the territorial integrity of an independent country, without obtaining permission from Damascus and Baghdad has repeatedly invaded the territory of Iraq and Syria; An action that has also brought protests from these two countries.