30 March 2016•Update: 30 March 2016
MARDIN, Turkey
In total, 137 PKK terrorists have been "neutralized" in the Nusaybin district of Turkey’s southeastern province of Mardin as of Wednesday morning.
A statement from Mardin Governorate’s official website said since the counter-terrorism operations which started on March 14, 137 terrorists were "neutralized" – three of them captured alive – 100 barricades were removed, 11 ditches filled up and 263 handmade explosives destroyed.
The statement added “22 of our security forces who fought heroically reached martyrdom status”.
The statement also said 566 people were evacuated and located to safer zones. The operations are still ongoing.
The PKK – also seen as a terrorist organization by the U.S. and the EU – resumed its 30-year armed campaign against the Turkish state in July 2015.
Since then, over 350 members of the security forces have been martyred and thousands of PKK terrorists killed in operations across Turkey and northern Iraq.
