Turkey says its air strikes kill 26 Kurdish militants in northern Iraq

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News ID: 24407
Publish Date: 12:01 - 15 June 2018
TEHRAN, June 15 - The Turkish military said on Friday air strikes its forces carried out killed 26 Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants in northern Iraq's Qandil mountain region on June 12, the state-run news agency Anadolu reported.

Turkey says its air strikes kill 26 Kurdish militants in northern IraqTEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) - The PKK, which has fought a decades-old insurgency against the state in southeastern Turkey, has bases in the Qandil region.

President Tayyip Erdogan recently vowed to "drain the terror swamp" in Qandil.

Source: Reuters

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