Turkey to keep conducting anti-terror operations against PKK, Erdoğan says
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President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Tuesday Turkey's counter-terrorism operations against the terrorist PKK organization would continue.

"We are going into winter season. There is no such thing [stopping the operations]," Erdoğan said in Justice and Development Party's (AK Party) parliamentary group meeting.

"The operation is continuing. We will not stop. We will push them. Nobody should feel offended," the president added.

His remarks came several days after seven soldiers and two village guards were killed in clashes with PKK terrorists in the southeastern province of Hakkari.

Meanwhile, the Interior Ministry announced Tuesday that at least 46 PKK terrorists have been killed in military operations in eastern Turkey.

Erdoğan reminded that commanders of Turkish army are reviewing military troop presence along the Turkey's southeastern borders.

He said PKK is a tool of foreign powers to disrupt peace in the region, while Daesh is a bloody terrorist organization irrelevant to Islam.

The PKK — listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the U.S. and the EU — resumed its armed campaign against Turkey in July 2015.

Since then, it has been responsible for the deaths of more than 1,200 Turkish security personnel and civilians, including a number of women and children.