The PDF announces the killing of 35 Turkish soldiers southeast Turkey
The Popular Defense Forces (PDF).
(IraqiNews.com) Sulaymaniyah – On Monday the leadership of the Popular Defense Forces (PDF), the armed wing of the PKK, announced the killing of 35 Turkish soldiers southeast Turkey, indicating to the destruction and the burning of a number of Turkish military vehicles.
The leadership of the PDF said in a statement received by IraqiNews.com, “The Popular Defense Forces launched yesterday a massive attack on a camp belonging to the Turkish army in Tatawan area in Bitlis region southeastern Turkey, which resulted in the death of 35 soldiers and wounding others.”
The leadership added that, “A number of military vehicles were destroyed and burned,” asserting that, “the attack was in retaliation to the blood of the martyrs and the revival of the thirty-second anniversary of the launch the armed force of the PKK.”