Turkey: Large Casualties Reported In PKK Militants Ranks

ANKARA, Turkey — Turkish Counterterrorism department claimed that as many as 141 Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) terrorists were eliminated in the country’s southeastern provinces as well as Iraq’s northern semi-autonomous Kurdistan region in the month of May. The press release issued by the Interior Ministry on Monday said that 141 PKK militants were either killed or wounded in the ground and aerial assault last month. The report further added that 3,645 civilians were nabbed for suspicious activities or having a link with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militant group last month.