ISTANBUL, Turkey — Turkish Defense Minister
Hulusi Akar said Wednesday that Turkey’s military had hit nearly 500 Kurdish
targets across Iraq and Syria as part of a campaign of air strikes.
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“So far 471 targets have been struck and 254
terrorists were neutralized in the operation,” Akar was quoted as saying by the
official Anadolu news agency.
Ankara began the series of air strikes as part of
Operation Claw-Sword on Sunday.
President
Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday threatened
to launch a ground operation into Syria “with tanks and soldiers” in defiance
of international pressure not to do so.
Turkey’s air
raids followed a bombing in Istanbul on November 13 that killed six people and
wounded 81.
Turkey blamed the attack on the Kurdistan Workers’
Party (
PKK), which is blacklisted as a terror group by the EU and the US.
The PKK, which has waged an insurgency against the Turkish
state since 1984, denied any role in the bombing — the deadliest in five years
after a spate of attacks in Turkey between 2015 and 2017.
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