ISTANBUL: Six Turkish soldiers were killed and one wounded when their base in northern Iraq was attacked by members of a Kurdish party outlawed by Ankara, the defense ministry said Saturday.
Turkiye has operated several dozen military posts in northern Iraq for the past 25 years in its decades-old war against the PKK, a group blacklisted by Turkiye and many of its Western allies as a terrorist organization.
Friday鈥檚 attack by the Kurdistan Workers鈥� Party occurred near Hakurk, the ministry said, adding that Turkish troops were carrying out a military operation in the area.
In October, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed to continue stepping up its strikes on 鈥渢errorist鈥� targets in Iraq and Syria.
The PKK claimed responsibility for a suicide attack on October 1 that injured two police officers in Ankara.