From about 10 p.m. Monday, Turkish war planes struck 23 targets in Metina, Gara, Hakurk and Qandil in northern Iraq and in unspecified regions of Syria.
Caves, shelters, tunnels and warehouses were among the targets, it said.
"In these operations, a large number of terrorists were neutralized by using domestic and national ammunition to the maximum extent," Ankara's ministry of defense said in a statement.
"The Turkish Armed Forces ... will continue the fight against terrorism for the survival and security of our country and our nation with determination and determination until the last terrorist is neutralized, as in the past."
Turkey has been unleashing airstrikes against the Kurdistan Workers Party, known as the PKK, over recent attacks by the Kurdish militants on Turkish troops.
At least 15 Turkish soldiers have been killed in clashes with Kurdish militants attempting to infiltrate Ankara bases in northern Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdish region.
Six were killed on Dec. 23, and nine were killed on Friday.
Formed in the late 1970s, the Marxist-Leninist PKK seeks an independent Kurdistan and has been in conflict with Turkey since at least 1984 when it began its armed insurgency against Ankara, according to a U.S. Congressional Research Service report.
The PKK has been designated a terrorist organization by Turkey, the United States, Canada and other Western allies.
Turkey bombs 'terrorist targets' in Iraq and Syria
Istanbul (AFP) Jan 13, 2024 -
Turkey conducted overnight air strikes on more than 50 "terrorist targets" in northern Iraq and Syria after nine of its soldiers were killed in Iraq, the defence ministry said Saturday.
"Air operations were carried out on terrorist targets in the regions of Metina, Hakurk, Gara and Qandil," the ministry said in a statement.
The nine Turkish soldiers were killed during clashes that followed an attempted intrusion at their military base near the northern Iraqi city of Metina, the ministry said, revising upward an earlier toll. Another four soldiers were wounded.
Turkey's armed forces said on Saturday evening that they had targeted 54 locations, including caves, bunkers, shelters and fuel dumps belonging to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and the YPG (People's Protection Units).
The YPG is a Syrian Kurdish militia which is a central element of US-allied forces in a coalition against Islamic State.
Ankara has operated several dozen military posts in the area for the past 25 years in its decades-old war against the PKK, a group blacklisted by Turkey and many of its Western allies as a terrorist organisation.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan held an emergency security meeting Saturday in Istanbul to discuss the surge in attacks on troops in the region. The country's foreign, defence and interior ministers attended, as well as the head of the armed forces and the intelligence service.
Meanwhile, 113 people were arrested for suspected links with the PKK in nationwide raids on Saturday, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said on X, formerly Twitter.
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