Istanbul The Turkish Ministry of Defense announced the killing of one of its soldiers in an exchange of fire with militants from the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in the area of The claw lock in northern Iraq, and it is the third among Turkish soldiers during the past 24 hours, which the Turkish army announces his death.
The Turkish Defense said in a statement today, Wednesday, that Sgt. Mahsun Shimsaker was killed in an exchange of fire with militants of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).
It is noteworthy that the Turkish defense had announced earlier that five officers and 27 soldiers had been killed in its operations against the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants in northern Iraq, bringing the Turkish defense officially announced the losses of the Turkish army in the operations of what it called “claw lock” the killing of five officers and 28 soldiers and wounding 12 others since it began its operations on the eighteenth of last April.
Source: National Iraqi News Agency