A total of 34 outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants were killed on February 20 in two separate air operations in northern Iraq, the Turkish Armed Forces has stated.
The strikes targeted militants in Iraq's Zap region and were conducted shortly after midnight and before noon, the military said in a statement.
PKK militants, who have fought a three-decade insurgency in Turkey's largely Kurdish southeast, have camps in the northern Iraq, where they have been regularly hit by Turkish warplanes since collapsed in July 2015.