Turkey- Turkish army kills 1250 militants in southeast
(MENAFN- The Journal Of Turkish Weekly) >Turkey’s military has killed at least 1250 militants from the outlawedKurdistan Workers’ Party(PKK) so far during counter-terrorism operations in the country’s southeast according to numbers compiled from data provided by security sources.
Since July 2015 an estimated 1250 militants have been killed in Turkey’s Nusaybin Dargeçit and Derik districts of the southeastern Mardin province Silvan and Sur districts of the southeasternDiyarbakrprovince along with the Silopi Cizre and dil districts of the southeastern rnak province of rnak and the Varto district of the eastern Mu province the state-run Anadolu Agency reported. The report came amid a freshPKKoffensive in dil that killed a Turkish soldier on March 6.
There have been scores of security force causalities during counter-terrorism operations in the country’s southeast as well.
“We lost 219 of our security forces killed between July 20 2015 and March 2 2016” Turkish Defense Minister smet Ylmaz said during a parliamentary session late March 5 when asked to comment on casualties of Turkish security personnel since the collapse of peace talks between the government and the outlawed group in late July.
“That was right to start the [Kurdish] peace process. This is true. That was true today and will be so tomorrow” Ylmaz added.
The joint operations carried out by the Turkish Army and security forces in the southeast aim to “clear” the cities ofPKKterrorists along with their barricades and ditches amid curfews.
The number of ditches and barricades removed in the operations in counter-terrorism operations has reached 2307 in total 85 of which took place in Dargeçit 22 in Silvan 788 in Silopi 951 in Cizre 24 in Derik 52 in Nusaybin 174 in dil and 211 in Sur.
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