ANKARA (Sputnik) — The Turkish Armed Forces have destroyed about 2,000 militants from the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in recent weeks, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Monday.
“About 2,000 terrorists were killed both in Qandil [region in the northern Iraq] and in Turkey,” Erdogan said in an interview with the Turkish ATV television channel.
He added that the military operations against the PKK militants would be intensified, because of Sunday's deadly attack on two military vehicles in Turkey's southeastern Hakkari Province that left at least 16 people dead.The PKK, based in Turkey and Iraqi Kurdistan, was founded in the late 1970s with the aim of obtaining self-determination for the Kurdish community. The group is considered to be a terrorist organization by Turkey, the European Union and NATO.











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| -2 | Edit | Delete Turkey broke unilaterely the ceasefire and killed the kurds.......the only guys who were fighting the terrorists......while erdogan was helping them. That guy has to be stopped.. Reply 
| -3 | Edit | Delete Look at Turkey, typical NATO member proud of killing and labelling the dead victims terrorists.
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