Turkey claims to have “neutralized” almost 4,000 “terrorists” during 2022

the minister Turkish of Defense, Hulusi Akar, assured today that his country has “neutralized” a total of 3,982 “terrorists” in military operations within its borders, as well as in Syria and Iraq.

Akar said that 553 military operations have been carried out during which 2,800 weapons have been seized and 4,000 caves used as shelters by groups considered by Ankara to be terrorists have been destroyed.

Akar assured that the incursions into northern Iraq and Syria, against Kurdish groups and militias, respected international law and the sovereignty of those countries, despite the fact that both have protested against these operations, and that only “terrorist” targets were attacked. ”.

Turkey argues that these incursions only seek to prevent the creation of a “terror corridor” on its southern border.

“Turkey has taken and will take all the necessary measures in the right place and at the right time for the security of our noble nation,” said the minister, who today took stock of the year in his department.

The minister described as “slander” the accusation of the use of chemical weapons against Kurdish groups, formulated by the PKK, the Kurdish guerrilla active in Turkey.

The president of the Turkish College of Physicians (TTB), Sebnem Korur Fincanci, is on trial for asking to investigate the alleged use of toxic gas by the Turkish Army against the PKK.

The PKK is also considered a terrorist by the European Union and the United States. Turkey considers this guerrilla and the Kurdish YPG militias to be the same organization, despite the fact that the Syrian group is an ally of Washington in the fight against the jihadist Islamic State.

Source: Elcomercio

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