Türkiye neutralised some 184 PKK/YPG terrorists as part of its cross-border anti-terror sweats, the country’s minister of public defence chief has said.
Beforehand on Sunday, Turkish forces launched Operation Claw-Sword, the across-border upstanding crusade against the PKK/YPG, which has illegal lairs in northern Iraq and northern Syria, where it plans attacks on Turkish soil.
“Since the morning of Operation Claw-Sword, 184 terrorists have been neutralised by ground fire support vehicles and aircraft,” Hulusi Akar said on Monday at the operations center of the Land Forces Command in the capital Ankara.
Akar said 89 targets, including harbors, cellarages, grottoes, coverts, and storages belonging to terrorists, were destroyed in the first phase of the operation.
“The Turkish Armed Forces is showing(a position of) perceptivity that no army has shown in order not to harm civilians, the terrain, literal, artistic, and religious structures, both in the planning and prosecution of conditioning. The Turkish army will do whatever needs to be done in line with all these perceptivity until the end,” he asserted.
Akar also informed President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of the rearmost developments in the operation.
Source: AA
