Turkey announces strikes against targets in Syria and Iraq

Turkey announces strikes against targets in Syria and Iraq
The government of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan hosts trilateral talks on the war in Ukraine starting on 16 May 2025. © Belga/ Eric Lalmand

Turkey's Ministry of Defence has announced that it has struck ‘thirty-two targets’ of the Kurdistan People's Party (PKK) and its allies in northern Iraq and Syria, following the attack that killed at least five people near Ankara on Wednesday.

The ministry said in a statement that an air operation was carried out "against terrorist targets" in northern Iraq and Syria on 23 October 2024, and a total of 32 targets belonging to terrorists were successfully destroyed.

It added that the “air operations are continuing.”

Turkey has blamed the PKK, which it considers a terrorist group, for Wednesday's attack on a defence company near Ankara.


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