Airstrikes by Turkish warplanes have "neutralized" 15 Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) fighters in northern Iraq, the military said on Twitter Saturday, destroying hideouts and armories belonging to the group.
The Turkish army uses the phrase to neutralize when it has killed, captured or wounded combatants.
The airstrikes carried out Friday targeted the Gara, Zap and Avasin-Basyan regions of northern Iraq, Turkish military said, adding that the fighters were believed to be preparing to carry out an attack.
"Fifteen armed members of the separatist terror organization, who were in preparations for an attack to military bases, were neutralized, hideouts and armories were destroyed by airstrikes carried out on Nov. 9," the military said, using the term it applies to the PKK.
Turkey regularly carries out airstrikes against PKK targets in northern Iraq, where the group is based in the Qandil mountains.
The PKK, considered a terrorist organization by the United States, the European Union and Turkey, has waged a three-decade insurgency in Turkey's largely Kurdish southeast that has killed some 40,000 people.
Reuters
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