The Turkish Ministry of Defense announced the killing of one of its soldiers in an armed clash in operations area in northern Iraq.

The Turkish Defense Ministry said in a statement today, Friday, that the soldier was injured in a clash with a group of Kurdistan Workers' Party militants in the area of the Claw Lock operations, and he was quickly transferred to a hospital inside Turkish territory, but he died as a result of his serious injury.

It is noteworthy that the Turkish Defense had previously announced the killing of seven officers and 44 soldiers in its operations against Kurdistan Workers’ Party militants in northern Iraq, thus raising what the Turkish Defense officially announced of the Turkish Army’s losses in the operations of what it called “Claw Lock” the killing of seven officers and 45 soldiers and 54 others injured since its operations began on April 18 of last year.

Source: National Iraqi News Agency