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Turkey: Kurds execute 13 hostages in a cave in northern Iraq
Ankara promises revenge after PKK gunmen allegedly shot dead prisoners during an operation by the Turkish military in northern Iraq.
The Kurds deny and say they were killed during the fighting.
The US condemned it, but Erdogan said it was a "joke" and accused it of supporting Kurdish militants.
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Monday, 15 February 2021, 13:20
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In the video: Turkey accuses the Kurdish underground of executing 13 hostages (Photo: Reuters, Editing: Amit Simcha)
Turkey accuses the Kurdish underground of executing 13 Turkish hostages, including military and police personnel, in a cave in northern Iraq, where Ankara is conducting a military operation.
Today (Monday) Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused the United States of supporting the Kurdish militants, and promised to continue fighting them, and the US ambassador was summoned for a clarification call by the Foreign Ministry in Ankara.
According to Turkish Defense Minister Holusi Acker, 12 of the abductees were shot dead in the head and one in the shoulder.
The defense minister said yesterday that the operation against the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which began last Wednesday, was aimed at guarding Turkey's border and locating previously abducted civilians.
The operation takes place 35 km south of the border, in the Kurdish province of northern Kurdish province. The
governor of Maltese province in southeastern Turkey counted six soldiers and two policemen, who were abducted in various incidents in 2015 and 2016, between the executions. Three of them have not yet been identified. A senior security source told Reuters intelligence officials were among the dead. "According to initial information given to us by two surviving terrorists, our civilians died martyrs at the beginning of the operation by the terrorists in charge of the cave," Turkey's defense minister said at the operation. To the border with Iraq.
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Funeral for Turkish soldiers killed during Operation Iraq last week (Photo: GettyImages, Adem ALTAN / AFP)
The PKK issued a statement on the website associated with it stating that several prisoners he held, including Turkish intelligence, police and military personnel, had been killed during fighting in the region.
The underground has denied harming the prisoners.
The PKK is defined as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the United States and the European Union, and more than 40,000 people have been killed since the beginning of the 1984 uprising in southeastern Turkey, most of which is inhabited by Kurds.
In the last two years, Turkey's struggle with the PKK has increasingly focused on northern Iraq, where the underground operates its stronghold in the Kandil Mountains near the Iranian border.
The Turkish president's media adviser said that while the country mourns the dead, it stresses its commitment to "pursue all terrorists hiding in caves and safe houses."
"Our revenge will be painful, our justice will be quick," tweeted Fahertin Elton, who attacked the West's "thunderous silence" in the face of PKK attacks.
He promised to take action against "people and groups who glorify and encourage terrorism."
Tonight, US State Department spokesman Ned Price condemned the execution of the Turkish hostages, but Erdogan said it was a "joke" after the statement classified the execution.
According to Erdogan, told his party members, Washington's statement shows that it supports the PKK and the Kurdish forces in Syria, the YPG, which Ankara claims is part of the PKK.
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