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PKK women fighters claim killing 160 Turks in 2016

 PKK women fighters claim killing 160 Turks in 2016

PKK women fighters.

PKK women fighters.
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) The women fighters command at the Kurdistan Worker Party (PKK) have claimed they had killed 160 Turkish government soldiers during 2016.

The female combatants command said in a statement that it had carried 115 “military” operations during that year. It vowed to “proceed the struggle during the new year for a life of freedom and until victory is achieved”.

The group, branded a terrorist organization by Turkey and several Western countries, has fought for an independent region for Turkey’s Kurds since the 1980s.

PKK and Turkish military encounters resumed in July 2015 for the first time since the militia announced a pullout from Turkish territory in 2013. The battles resumed after PKK accused Ankara of failure of protecting Kurds following an Islamic State attack that killed 32 Kurds at a town near the borders with Syria.

PKK’s involvement in the fight against Islamic State in Syria and Iraq has further stoked tensions with Ankara.

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