Türkiye kills hundreds of terrorists in Iraq, Syria in 2024 VIDEO

The Turkish Armed Forces has neutralised 398 terrorists in the region since January 1, 2024, Zeki Akturk, Spokesperson for the country’s Defence Ministry, said on social network X.

"Over the past week, the Turkish military neutralised 39 terrorists, including in Iraq and northern Syria. This brings the number of terrorists neutralised since January 1, 2024 to 398, including 151 in northern Iraq and 247 in northern Syria,” Caliber.Az quotes Akturk as saying in the post.

“Moreover, two PKK terrorists who escaped from their hideouts in northern Iraq last week surrendered to our border post in Habur," Akturk said.

Millî Savunma Bakanlığının faaliyetlerine ilişkin Haftalık Basın Bilgilendirme Toplantısı gerçekleştirildi. Basın ve Halkla İlişkiler Müşaviri Tuğamiral Zeki Aktürk tarafından gerçekleştirilen toplantıda şu bilgiler paylaşıldı:

ERZİNCAN’DAKİ KAYIP İŞÇİLERİMİZİN SAĞ SALİM… pic.twitter.com/ceLrqTNyHz

— T.C. Millî Savunma Bakanlığı (@tcsavunma) February 15, 2024

Since 2016, Ankara has launched a trio of successful anti-terror operations across its border in northern Syria to prevent the formation of a terror corridor and enable the peaceful settlement of residents: Euphrates Shield (2016), Olive Branch (2018), and Peace Spring (2019).

Separately, Turkish soldiers also seized a large cache of arms and ammunition, communication materials, and survival supplies in a cave in northern Iraq in the Operation Claw-Lock zone, the ministry said.

Türkiye launched Operation Claw-Lock in April 2022 to target the PKK terror group’s hideouts in the Metina, Zap, and Avasin-Basyan regions of northern Iraq, located near the Turkish border.

The anti-terror operations came after last month’s PKK terror attack that killed 12 Turkish soldiers in northern Iraq. Since then, Turkish airstrikes have destroyed dozens of terror targets in northern Iraq and Syria, near the border, and neutralized several senior terrorists.

In its more than 35-year terror campaign against Türkiye, the PKK – listed as a terrorist organization by Türkiye, the US, and EU – has been responsible for the deaths of more than 40,000 people, including women, children, and infants.