The ministry said on Twitter the counter-terrorism operations will continue without letup.<\/p>\n
Turkish authorities often use the word “neutralized” in statements to imply terrorists in question surrendered or were killed or captured.<\/p>\n
Northern Iraq is a known base of the terrorist YPG\/PKK, used by its members to plan cross-border terrorist attacks against Turkey.<\/p>\n
In its more than 30-year terror campaign against Turkey, the PKK — listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the U.S. and EU — has been responsible for deaths of 40,000 people, including women, children and infants. The YPG is the PKK’s Syrian offshoot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Turkish security forces neutralized two PKK terrorists in an air-backed operation in northern Iraq, country’s National Defense Ministry said on Thursday. The ministry said on Twitter the counter-terrorism operations will continue without letup. Turkish authorities often use the word “neutralized” in statements to imply terrorists in question surrendered or were killed or captured. Northern Iraq …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":64763,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,1,118,174,194,173],"tags":[76941,17886,78478],"class_list":["post-64762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-general","category-hot","category-turkey-daily","category-turkey-general","category-turkey-headlines","tag-iraq-pkk","tag-terrorists","tag-turkey-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}