Turkish military kill 11 PKK terrorists in southeastern provinces


Turkish military killed 11 PKK terrorists in two separate operations in southeast Turkey on Wednesday, the military said Thursday.

According to the Turkish General Staff's statement posted on its website, six terrorists were killed in an operation in the Nusaybin district of the Mardin province, putting the death toll in Mardin to 366 since operations began.

Security forces also destroyed 17 improvised explosive devices in the operation.

Five additional PKK terrorists were killed in the province of Şırnak, increasing the number of terrorists killed there to 340. The army also said that five explosives were defused in the province.

Security forces also detained 13 people in the Çukurca district of the Hakkari province.

PKK - listed as a terrorist organization also by the U.S., and EU - resumed its 30-year armed campaign against the Turkish state in July 2015.

Since then, more than 440 security personnel, including troops, police officers and village guards and more than 4,500 PKK terrorists have been killed in operations across Turkey and Northern Iraq.