In a statement, the Turkish General Staff said the air operation took place in the rural Cukurca district.
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A soldier was martyred and 20 terrorists were killed during an anti-PKK operation in southeastern Turkey’s Hakkari province late Thursday, a Turkish military source told Anadolu Agency Friday.
The PKK – listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the US and European Union – resumed its 30-year armed campaign against the Turkish state in July 2015. The PKK, which Turkey and other Western countries regard as a terrorist organization, has waged a thirty-year insurgency to establish Kurdish autonomy. A ceasefire broke down just over a year ago. Rights groups say hundreds of civilians have also been killed in the clashes.
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Last week, Turkey sent tanks across the Syrian border to fight the Islamic State group and to halt the advance of Syrian Kurdish groups affiliated with the PKK.
