NNA – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday that his country will end the ldquo;Claw-Lockrdquo; operation carried out across the border in northern Iraq soon, according to Reuters.
quot;We will very soon close the lock on the Claw operations area in northern Iraq,rdquo; Erdogan said at the National Defense University graduation ceremony.
Turkish forces have been carrying out cross-border operations against PKK fighters in northern Iraq since 2019.
The PKK, which is classified as a terrorist group by Turkey, the United States and the European Union, took up arms against the Turkish state in 1984…More than 40,000 were killed in the rebellion.
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