Up to 270 PKK militants killed

Breath · Oct 24, 2011

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Turkeys army chief says up to 270 PKK terrorists killed

24 October 2011, Monday / İBRAHİM ÖKÜR/MEHMET GÜNGÖR, HAKKARİ

Turkeys Chief of General Staff has said the number of terrorists killed by the Turkish military in a massive offensive launched against the terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) since August has reached about 270 with Turkish troops killing 15 more terrorists in the Kazan Valley region near the town of Çukurca in Hakkari province on Monday.

Soldiers earlier killed 100 terrorists in the same region in military operations that began hours after 24 soldiers were killed in Çukurca by the PKK in simultaneous attacks last Wednesday, marking the highest death toll of a single attack on the military since the 1990s. Sources say 15 more terrorists were killed in the Kazan Valley on Monday and that the military had seized 11 Kalashnikov rifles as well as a rocket launcher and several hand grenades.

Chief of General Staff Necdet Özel told NTV television in a written interview that Turkish military continues to intensively shell and bomb PKK targets in Iraq by fighter jets since Aug. 17 and up to 270 PKK terrorists were killed during the offensive and more than 210 terrorists injured.

Özel said huge infrastructure that belongs to the terrorists were largely destroyed and terrorists have started to take shelter in more safe areas. He said numbers of terrorists fleeing the PKK camps seriously increased after the air bombing on PKK targets.

Turkey's top commanders, Özel, and four force commanders who rushed to Hakkari in the aftermath of Wednesday's PKK attacks are still in the region to oversee the anti-PKK offensive and have no plans to return to Ankara until the offensive is successfully completed. Özel is personally commanding the air-backed ground offensive that was launched against the PKK along the border and in northern Iraq.

The military also said operations include commandos, Special Forces and paramilitary Special Forces. They are being reinforced by F-16 and F-4 warplanes, Super Cobra helicopter gunships and surveillance drones.

Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arınç said over the weekend that the top commanders pledged not to return home before accomplishing the anti-PKK operation. Clashes with the PKK have killed tens of thousands of people since the PKK took up arms to fight for autonomy in the country's predominantly Kurdish Southeast in 1984.
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Source: Today's Zaman

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