Original title: Foreign media: Turkey cross-border air strikes on Kurdish strongholds, 60 planes raided at night Source: Reference News Network
Reference News Network reported on February 4 Turkish warplanes hit Kurdish targets in Iraq and northern Syria, including bunkers, ammunition depots and training camps, the Turkish Defense Ministry said on February 2, DPA reported in Istanbul on February 2.
Turkey’s state news agency Anadolu quoted the Defense Ministry as saying that about 60 aircraft were involved in the nighttime raid, targeting nearly 80 strongholds in three different locations in northern Syria and Iraq, the furthest from the Turkish border. 165 km.
The Turkish Defense Ministry said in a statement that the planes targeted “terrorists” belonging to the banned Kurdish Workers’ Party and Syria’s Kurdish militia YPG in the Derik, Sinjar and Karakak regions. “stronghold.
Ankara reportedly considers both the PKK and YPG to be terrorist organizations.