ERBIL — Turkey's National Intelligence Organization on Tuesday announced its forces "neutralized" a senior member of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in the Kurdistan Region.

"Turkish intelligence has neutralized Ayse Arslan, so-called social area coordinator of the PKK terror organization in northern Iraq's Hakurk region," Anadolu Agency reported today, citing security sources.

Türkiye had been tracking the terrorist, who had joined the PKK in 2004 and had been active in the group's Syrian offshoot YPG since 2014."

Ankara uses the term "neutralize" to imply actions like killing or surrendering in the context of its military operations against the PKK.

After a recent suicide attack on Turkey's national police headquarters in Ankara by the PKK, Turkey has increased its air raids in both the Kurdistan Region and neighboring Syria.

This ongoing decades-long conflict between Turkey and the PKK has deeply affected life in the Kurdistan Region, leading to a significant number of civilian casualties, the displacement of thousands of villages, and the abandonment of multiple mountain resorts and valuable agricultural land.

On Monday, a Turkish drone attack targeted a vehicle at Boskeni village near the district of Ranya in Sulaymaniyah province, killing two PKK fighters and injuring two others.