Turkey says its air strikes kill 26 Kurdish militants in northern Iraq

Turkish Armed Forces conduct a military drill near the Turkish-Iraqi border on 29 September 2017 [Fatih Aktaş/Anadolu Agency]

The Turkish military said on Friday air strikes its forces carried out killed 26 Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants in northern Iraq’s Qandil mountain region on June 12, Anadolu Agency reported.

The PKK, which has fought a decades-old insurgency against the state in southeastern Turkey, has bases in the Qandil region. President Tayyip Erdogan recently vowed to “drain the terror swamp” in Qandil.

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