The People’s Defense Forces eliminated 27 Turkish occupation soldiers during an operation carried out in Xakurkê.

The ANF news agency explained that the People’s Defense Forces carried out an operation against the Turkish occupation army in the Defense Areas, it said, “The guerillas launched a three-pronged attack on the Martyr Kehreman Hill in the Xakurkê district on Friday around 4 pm. They were killed in the action 27 Turkish soldiers and weapons belonging to 17 soldiers were seized.”

In its statement, the Ministry of Defense of Turkey after the action against the rebels, announced that six Turkish soldiers were killed and four soldiers were wounded in clashes with Kurdish pkk rebels in northern Iraq this week.