Istanbul / NINA / - The Turkish Ministry of Defense announced the killing of one of its infantry soldiers in the area of Operation Claw Lock in an attack by Kurdish militants in northern Iraq.

The Turkish Defense Ministry stated in a statement today, Wednesday, that a soldier was wounded in an attack by militants of the separatist "PKK" organization targeting a Turkish military base in the region. He was transferred to a hospital and died there.

In its statement, the Turkish Defense indicated that the infantry element, Serjan Bash, died of wounds sustained in a clash with PKK militants in northern Iraq.

The Turkish Defense had announced earlier the killing of four officers and sixteen soldiers in its operations against the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants in northern Iraq. Thus, the Turkish Defense has officially announced the losses of the Turkish army in the operations of what it called “claw lock”, as four officers and seventeen soldiers were killed and 10 others were wounded since its operations began on the eighteenth of last April./End




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