Ankara: At least 15 suspected members of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) were killed when Turkish forces attacked PKK bases in southeast Turkey near the Iraqi border.
The terror elements were killed during clashes with Turkish troops on Wednesday, Reuters quoted security officials as saying.
Turkish government decided to launch an incursion against the group after the PKK terrorists killed 26 Turkish soldiers in the Cukurca district of the southeastern province of Hakkari overnight.
More than 100 PKK terrorists stormed bases of Turkish security forces in various areas in the district.
Responding the incident, Turkish President Abdullah Gul has vowed that his country would engage in a “heavy revenge” on the terrorists.
“No one should forget that those who make us suffer this pain will be made to suffer even stronger,” Gul said. “They will see that the vengeance for these attacks will be immense.”
PKK is a separatist terrorist group that launched an armed insurgency in 1984 for a separate Kurdish homeland in the southeast of Turkey.
The Turkish government said that some 2,000 PKK elements are operating close to the Turkish-Iraqi border in northern Iraq.
Listed as a terrorist group by Ankara and most of the international community, PKK is held responsible by Turkey for the loss of nearly 45,000 lives over the past two decades.
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