Türkiye has attacked almost 160 PKK positions in Syria and Iraq since the Ankara attack

MADRID 27 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –

Turkish security forces have destroyed 157 positions of the armed group of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) since the beginning this week of the wave of bombings in Iraq and Syria that are part of a large retaliation operation for Wednesday’s attack in Ankara , assumed by the organization, and which left five dead and 22 injured.

The bombings occurred between October 23 and 26, hitting PKK shelters and arsenals in northern Syria and Iraq, the scene for years of a Turkish bombing campaign against the armed group, with which it has been at war for decades. .

Organizations such as the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights have reported that this campaign of attacks is taking a heavy toll on the civilian population. The organization, based in London and sources inside Syria, estimates that 17 civilians have been killed and 60 injured in these attacks in this country alone.

However, it must be said that Wednesday’s attack in Ankara came at a time of renewed talks between the Turkish government and PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan, who has been imprisoned in Turkey for more than two decades.

On Thursday, Ocalan’s nephew Omer, a member of the Turkish parliament, relayed a message from the PKK leader suggesting he was prepared to end the violent conflict that has raged since the mid-1980s.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Nationalist Movement Party leader Devlet Bahceli had previously invited Ocalan to address Parliament as he announced the organization’s dissolution.