PKK: “Turkish Army Lost More Than It Announced, Battles Continue”
Arbil, Oct 21, (VOI) – The Turkish army lost more than it announced after the clashes that occurred on Saturday evening on the Iraqi-Turkish borders, the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK)’s foreign relations official said on Sunday.
The Turkish army, which is threatening to attack northern Iraqi to strike PKK members, was quoted by the Turkish Anatolian news agency as saying that 12 Turkish soldiers were killed and 16 others wounded in clashes with PKK fighters.
“PKK fighters killed and captured a number of Turkish soldiers in clashes between the two sides going on since Saturday evening in Oramay in Hakary province on the Turkish side of the Iraqi-Turkish borders,” Abdul-Rahman al-Jadirji told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI) by telephone.
Jadirji did not reveal details about the Turkish army’s losses, declining to speak about PKK casualties said by the Turkish army in a statement to have reached 23 deaths and captures.
Hakary, one of the provinces of Anatolia region in southern Turkey, is surrounded by mountains from four directions, lying near Iraq and Iran with a border strip that extends to reach 343 km. Hakary has a population of 58,145.
The Turkish parliament unanimously approved on Wednesday a memorandum forwarded by the government to give the thumbs up to the Turkish army to hunt down members of the PKK, or Partiya Karkeren Kurdistan in Kurdish, in northern Iraq. Only 19 out of a total 555 legislators in the Turkish parliament voted against the proposal. The Turkish parliament made the decision after PKK fighters on the Turkish-Iraqi border areas waged armed attacks that killed nearly 15 Turkish soldiers ten days ago.
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