The Turkish Ministry of Defense announced the killing of one of its soldiers in an attack by militants from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party in northern Iraq.

The Turkish Defense stated in a statement today, Wednesday, that a group of militants from the banned Kurdistan Workers’ Party opened fire on one of the Turkish army units tasked with the “Claw Lock” operations in northern Iraq, and that unit confronted them after an armed clash that resulted in the death of the soldier / Habib Murad Alp /.

It is noteworthy that the Turkish Defense had previously announced the killing of ten officers and 63 soldiers in its operations against the Kurdistan Workers’ Party militants in northern Iraq, thus raising what the Turkish Defense officially announced of the losses of the Turkish army in the operations called / Claw Lock / the killing of ten officers and 64 soldiers and the wounding of 91 others since it began its operations on April 18, 2021.

Source: National Iraqi News Agency