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Turkey neutralizes 26 PKK terrorists in northern Iraq

Ersin Çelik
11:01 - 15/06/2018 Friday
Update: 11:08 - 15/06/2018 Friday
REUTERS
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The Turkish military said on Friday air strikes its forces carried out killed 26 Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) terrorists in northern Iraq's Qandil mountain region on June 12, the state-run news agency Anadolu reported.

The PKK, which has fought a decades-old insurgency against the state in southeastern Turkey, has bases in the Qandil region. President Tayyip Erdoğan recently vowed to "drain the terror swamp" in Qandil.

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