Istanbul (NINA) - The Turkish Ministry of Defense announced the killing of one of its soldiers in the explosion of an explosive device in northern Iraq, and he is the tenth of the Turkish army killed in the operation the Claw Lock.

The Turkish Defense said in a statement that the soldier was wounded by the explosion of an explosive device planted in the Matina area, northern Iraq, and later died in the hospital.

The Turkish Defense had announced earlier the killing of three officers and six soldiers in its operations against the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants in northern Iraq. Thus, the Turkish Defense Ministry has officially announced the losses of the Turkish army in the operations of what it called / Claw Lock / the killing of three officers and seven soldiers and the injury of seven other soldiers since it began its operations on the eighteenth of last April. /End




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