ERBIL — Turkey on Sunday claimed that it has “naturalized” seven fighters of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), including a senior member of the party.
It was not clear if the PKK fighters were all killed or arrested as Turkish authorities use the term “neutralize” for targeted members of the PKK.
An anonymous security source was cited by state-run Anadolu Agency as saying that two separate drone strikes had “naturalized” five members of the Kurdish party.
It said the targeted individuals included Mehmet Gurbuz, whom the source introduced as a senior operative of the PKK with a red notice on the Turkish list of wanted individuals.
Meanwhile, Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu wrote on Twitter that security forces had ambushed three PKK members in the Yuksekova district of the Kurdish province of Hakkari in a separate operation.
He revealed that two of the Kurdish fighters were neutralized while the third one was seemingly arrested.