As many as 183 Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) terrorists have been killed in the past four days across four southeastern provinces in Turkey's sweeping operations, Turkey's General Staff Said on Thursday.
The anti-terror raids, jointly held by the police and the military, were carried out across Cizre and Silopi districts in Şırnak; Dargeçit and Nusaybin in Mardin, Diyarbakır's Sur district and the city of Bitlis.
One hundred twenty-two PKK terorists were neutralized in Cizre, eight in Silopi, 30 in Sur, 16 in Dargeçit, three in Nusaybin, and four in Bitlis' Sehi forest area as part of the ongoing retaliatory campaign.
The number of slain PKK terrorists in Cizre climbed to 122 totally after 6 more terrorists were slain on Wednesday, according to a statement released on the General Staff's officiel site.
The security forces detonated 17 improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and one barricade was removed, five hunting rifles, 11 rocket-launcher shells and one rifle were discovered during operations in Silopi, according to the statement.
The Turkish military killed 7 PKK terrorists in Diyarbakır's Sur district on Wednesday and detonated two IEDs. A barricade erected to prevent access to remote areas was removed during the operations. The General Staff also declared that 30 PKK terrorists have been killed in Sur during anti-terror raids in progress since December 9, 2015.
Four PKK members were neutralized on Tuesday in Bitlis city's Sehi forest area while nine granades and one radio-set were found by security forces.
A total of 16 PKK terrorists were slain in Mardin's Dargeçit district, where a curfew is still in force. In another Mardin district, Nusaybin, still under curfew, three PKK terrorists were killed in the ongoing operations aiming to root out terror havens in the region.
