Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım said on Wednesday that Turkey will carry out an operation against Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) terrorists in northern Iraq’s Qandil region.
Addressing crowds during a campaign stop for the upcoming June 24 elections, Yıldırım said that Turkey will clear the region from terrorists, pointing to the success of the Euphrates Shield and Olive Branch operations.
“We will collapse it over their heads, we vowed to do that,” Yıldırıım said in reference to northern Iraq’s Qandil region.
Northern Iraq’s Qandil Mountains have been a haven for PKK terrorists over the past few decades. Considered as the main base of the PKK, which control checkpoints and entrances to the mountains, the structuring in the area is used for cover and concealment by terrorists.
Listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the U.S. and the EU, the PKK has waged a wide-ranging terror campaign against the Turkish state since the mid-1980s, in which an estimated 40,000 people have been killed.
