No less than 13 intelligence and police personnel, including two intelligence directors, were killed.
Monday 15/02/2021
A June 2020 file picture shows Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar (R) looking at a map with members of the Turkish Armed Forces Command during a meeting in Ankara during the military operation dubbed “Claw-Tiger”. (AFP)
ISTANBUL - A Turkish operation in northern Iraq ended in a bloodbath after special forces failed to rescue 13 elite intelligence and police officers who had been kidnapped by Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants.
Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar said that soldiers carrying out an operation against PKK militants in northern Iraq found the bodies of 13 Turks who had been kidnapped and executed in a cave.
Turkey last week conducted a military operation in northern Iraq against the terrorist group the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), failing to save 13 Turkish hostages being held by the group for fou.