Turkey kills seven suspected PKK members in operation in northern Iraq

Sep. 24 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The Government of Turkey announced this Saturday the death of seven alleged members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in an operation by its Armed Forces in northern Iraq.

This has been confirmed by the Turkish Ministry of Defense through its profile on the social network Twitter, where it has asserted that Ankara would have acted in response to the death of a member of the Army.

Later, the Turkish news agency Anatolia detailed that infantry lieutenant Serkan Erkus died on Friday as a result of clashes between the Armed Forces and the PKK.

“We do not leave the blood of our martyr on the ground. We will not! Seven PKK terrorists detected in northern Iraq have been neutralized by our Turkish Armed Forces,” said the Defense portfolio.

The Turkish Army has intensified its operations against the PKK -which it considers a terrorist group- both in the southeast of the country and in the north of Iraq, both of which have a Kurdish majority, since the ceasefire between the Government and the armed group in July 2015.