Ankara [Turkey], April 27: Two Turkish soldiers were killed on Tuesday in an operation against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in northern Iraq.
The Turkish Defense Ministry said that one soldier was killed and four others were wounded in a rocket launch attack by the PKK in the ongoing operation, dubbed Claw-Lock. One of the wounded soldiers later died of wounds at a hospital.
The Turkish military offensive in northern Iraq, which started on April 18, targets the PKK's shelters, bunkers, caves, tunnels, ammunition depots and regional headquarters in Metina, Zap and Avasin-Basyan.
Turkey regularly conducts cross-border operations on the PKK bases in northern Iraq. The PKK, listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, has been rebelling against the Turkish government for over 30 years.
Iraq has protested against the latest Turkish operation in northern Iraq as a violation of its sovereignty, but Turkey defended it as a move aimed at maintaining Turkey's border security.
Source: Xinhua
