FILE PHOTO: Turkish soldiers seen at the border town of Akcakale © Reuters / Murad Sezer
The Turkish military has lost five more service members in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region, where it has been conducting a large-scale operation against the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).
The operation, codenamed Claw-Lock, was launched on April 17 to neutralize PKK cells in the areas of Metina, Zap and Avashin Basyan.
On July 7, the Turkish Ministry of National Defense announced that three service members were killed and five others were wounded in two confrontations with PKK fighters in the autonomous Kurdish region in northern Iraq. In two separate statements, the ministry identified the slain service members as Sergeant Murat Yildirim, Captain Muhammed Mustafa Koca and Captain Omur Ertugrul Sari.
Click to see full-size image. Source: the Turkish Ministry of National Defense.
Click to see full-size image. Source: the Turkish Ministry of National Defense.
Click to see full-size image. Source: the Turkish Ministry of National Defense.
Three days earlier, the ministry announced the death of two service members, Sergeants Serhat Bal and Enes Ozgul, in Operation Claw Lock zone. Ozgul died of wounds he sustained as a result of an attack by the PKK that took place on June 21.
Click to see full-size image. Source: the Turkish Ministry of National Defense.
Click to see full-size image. Source: the Turkish Ministry of National Defense.
The new casualty brought to 36 the number of Turkish service members killed in the Kurdistan Region since the beginning of Operation Claw-Lock.
Turkey responded to its recent losses by intensifying its airstrikes on the PKK’s areas of influence in the Kurdistan Region. The airstrikes inflicted some serious losses on the PKK. However, they also led to a backlash against Ankara in Iraq.
Operation Claw-Lock will not likely end soon as Turkey appears to be determined to mount even more pressure on the PKK. According to Ankara’s claims, more than 250 fighters of the PKK have been killed, wounded or captured since the beginning of the operation.
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Erdogan is an equal to the basement dweller Jew Zelensky. Turkey is a real economic Turkey in every sense, it is suffering 100% inflation, has no real economy and is maintaining a third rate second largest cannon fodder military for it NATO masters. Erdogan is a simple street thug who thinks that he can resurrect another moth eaten Ottoman Empire which was repeatedly defeated by Russia despite like today was backed by the devious British and every major European power.
The Turkeys have been at war with 20 million Kurds for the past 60 years and have made zero headway as the west, especially the American idiots and Zionists have also been arming them to keep the region destabilized. Now the Turkeys are occupying a belt in Northern Syria and Iraq in collaboration with their Zionist masters. It is only a matter of time that a major conflict will break out between Arabs and Turkeys. Russian patience with the Zionists is also wearing thin. I foresee a lot of dead Turkeys in the coming months.
Another “expert” in geopolitics in internet.
zelensky the little jewish comic actor who gives a jerk to this dead fish mouth of Putin in Ukraine. I like to see the disarray of pro Poutine. kyiv soon taken?
Turkey with its high inflation rate is still standing, it is holding firm. you in Europe and for example in France, I am currently in France when the prices increase by a few cents you all cry. France is at 8% inflation you are in panic. all of Europe is in panic like in the United States.
Russia is getting shot by all the sanctions too. when they closed the MacDonalds, for example, the Russians cried!!! what is this country??? for a burger you cry!
Turkey cannon fodder for NATO? where ? seriously where?
If Turkey obeyed NATO, it would never have carried out operations in Syria!
if Turkey obeyed NATO it would never have bought the S-400 systems from Russia.
If Turkey obeyed NATO, it would not have forced Sweden and Finland to negotiate and would never have vetoed! Should I continue or is it good?
The Zionists support the PKK which is Turkey’s worst enemy. Turkey and Israel are very far from being friends. only the ignorant can say otherwise. Israel’s great dream is “Eretz Israel” a large territory including a good piece of present-day Turkey. do not forget.
in the Russian government there are plenty of Jews.
the biggest propagandist of Russian power who has television and radio broadcasts is Jewish too.
one day Israel destroyed a Russian plane the Russians said nothing…
when Israel attacks and bombs Syria Bashar el-Assad and the Russians never say and do anything! yet russians are supposed to protect syria…
how strange is all this…
Turkey is a Zionist pet who’s job is to do as much destruction possible. Them “disobeying” their masters doesn’t mean they aren’t puppets, they’re still doing the job of causing more chaos in the Middle East. Fact is Turkey is dreaming about another Ottoman Empire, but those clowns best weapons are imported weapons. They stand no chance to be dependent only on themselves because that’s what being an empire means.
bring your evidence if they are in the service of the Zionists! I have proven myself. just saying “these are pets” is not proof. go find out about the local Turkish military arsenal before speaking, it’s obvious that you don’t know anything about it.
Your president is buddy buddy with Israel, that’s all the proof you need
Turkey can’t become any stronger. If they want to fight with USA and their allies which will happen if they want to do another Ottoman Empire, they simply won’t last. Militarily speaking their airforce is an American export so USA will destroy their Air Force in a couple days tops, and then what, they’ll deploy Turkish soldiers who get fucked up in every operation?
If you finish you can go back to your cave drink your glass of poison and go to sleep.. cluless scum of the Earth… Fight Will go on until we sent all terrorist to their maker. that’s the final now you can f*** off
Şehitler ölmez vatan bölünmez 🐺🇹🇷🤘🏼
They are in paradise now
The soldiers of Zionist are in hell inshallah
Turkish soldiers are soldiers of allah and his prophet sav. In Turkish we say “Mehmetçik” means soldiers of Muhammed. the same soldiers that the Arabs betrayed during the First World War to ally themselves with the West. bravo Arabs it is partly thanks to you that Israel was born.s
Now look at Turkey, hosts the Israeli president every month, and helps Israel with their strategic goals
Turkey host the Israeli president yes it’s right and Turkey has a relationship with Israel it’s right and good too ! Why good ? why ?
With that we can send lot of humanitarian aid to the Palestinian and Turkey has Turkish hospital in Gaza. How many Muslim countries have theirs hospital in Gaza, how many Muslim countries send humanitarian aid to Palestinian ? not a lot.
It’s strategy and to defeat Israel ( 53 state of America) we need to be clever strategy and patient. Like Selahaddin Eyyubi who who for 20 years prepared his strategy to liberate Jerusalem from the crusaders.
and why not ?
thanks PKK
Do the Turks not have a very great army that they can’t wipe out the Kurds? Or are the Kurds very well armed? Or maybe the Turks aren’t going in very hard.
Why should Russia and Syria go out of their way to protect the US lackey Kurds?