PKK announces killing 8 Turkish soldiers near Iraqi-Turkish border
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(IraqiNews.com) Kurdistan – The armed wing of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) announced on Monday the killing of eight Turkish soldiers during an attack on a site belonging to the Turkish army near the Iraqi borders.
The PKK said in a statement obtained by IraqiNews.com, “Our forces conducted an attack on a site belonging to the Turkish army in the area of Qalaban located on the Iraqi-Turkish border,” noting that, “The attack resulted in killing eight Turkish soldiers.”
The statement added, “The Turkish forces has shelled the launching site of the attack.”