The Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) have announced that eight Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) terrorists have been killed during air operations in northern Iraq, CNN Türk reported on Tuesday.
According to the report, eight PKK militants who were planning an armed attack on military bases on the border of the Zap region in northern Iraq were neutralized by Turkish forces.
The Turkish Interior Ministry announced on Monday that a total of 43 PKK terrorists have been neutralized across Turkey over the past week.
According to the ministry statement, Turkish security forces killed 27 PKK members and detained six. 10 PKK members surrendered to security forces in the same period.
Turkish authorities had conducted direct talks with jailed PKK chief Abdullah Öcalan for several years until a truce in effect collapsed in the summer of 2015.
Since then, there have been heavy clashes between the PKK and Turkish security forces.
More than 40,000 people, including 5,500 security force members, have been killed in four decades of fighting between the Turkish state and the PKK, which is listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the US and the EU.