01 June 2017•Update: 01 June 2017
ANKARA
Security forces killed six PKK terrorists in an airstrike on positions in northern Iraq on Thursday, the Turkish military said.
The air force attacked the PKK in the Avasin-Basyan region as they prepared to attack Turkish border posts, the Turkish General Staff said in a statement.
An anti-aircraft weapon emplacement was destroyed in the strike, the statement added.
More than 1,200 people, including security force personnel and civilians, have lost their lives since the PKK -- listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the U.S., and EU -- resumed its decades-old armed campaign in July 2015.
Reporting by Sarp Ozer;Writing by Ahmet Furkan Mercan
