By Xinhua
Ankara : Turkish General Staff on Friday said that the outlawed Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK) suffered heavy loss in the air strike carried out by Turkish Security Forces on Jan. 15, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported.
The General Staff said in a statement that during the operation, Turkish jets destroyed five command centers, two communication centers, 15 training centers, 12 logistic centers, 18 hideouts, two anti-aircraft positions and four arms depots of the PKK in northern Iraq.
“Turkish Armed Forces will continue staging military operations with determination,” it added.
The Turkish military has recently launched several attacks to fight against the PKK separatists, which use the Kurdish autonomous region in northern Iraq as a launch pad for attacks against Turkey.
The PKK, listed by the United States and Turkey as a terrorist group, took up arms against Turkey in 1984 with the aim of creating an ethnic homeland in the southeast. More than 30,000 people have been killed in the over-two-decade conflict.