The Turkish Ministry of Defense announced that a Turkish soldier was killed in clashes with militants of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in northern Iraq.
The Turkish Defense Ministry said in a statement today, Thursday, that Staff Sergeant Ali Demir was seriously wounded by gunfire during clashes with PKK militants in the area of Operation Claw Lock in northern Iraq.
In its statement, the Turkish defense indicated that Demir died of his wounds, despite all medical attempts to save him.
It is noteworthy that the Turkish defense had announced earlier that seven officers and 39 soldiers had been killed in its operations against the PKK militants in northern Iraq, bringing what the Turkish defense officially announced in terms of the losses of the Turkish army in the operations of what it called /claw lock / the killing of seven officers and 40 soldiers and wounding 43 others since it began its operations on the eighteenth of April of last year.
Source: National Iraqi News Agency