{"id":9417,"date":"2024-12-27T15:45:04","date_gmt":"2024-12-27T10:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/?p=9417"},"modified":"2024-12-27T15:45:07","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T10:45:07","slug":"turkish-security-forces-neutralize-14-pkk-terrorists-in-northern-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/asia\/turkish-security-forces-neutralize-14-pkk-terrorists-in-northern-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish security forces &#8216;neutralize&#8217; 14 PKK terrorists in northern Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish security forces &#8220;neutralized&#8221; 14 PKK terrorists in northern Iraq, T\u00fcrkiye\u2019s National Defense Ministry said on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The terrorists were targeted in Hakurk, Metina and Gara regions, the ministry said on X.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It reiterated T\u00fcrkiye&#8217;s determination to eliminate terrorism \u201cat its source.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Turkish authorities use the term &#8220;neutralize&#8221; to imply the terrorists in question surrendered or were killed or captured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PKK terrorists often hide out in northern Iraq to plot cross-border attacks in T\u00fcrkiye.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In its 40-year terror campaign against T\u00fcrkiye, the PKK \u2013 listed as a terrorist organization by T\u00fcrkiye, the US, and EU \u2013 has been responsible for the deaths of over 40,000 people, including women, children, infants and the elderly.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish security forces &#8220;neutralized&#8221; 14 PKK terrorists in northern Iraq, T\u00fcrkiye\u2019s National Defense Ministry said on Friday. The terrorists were targeted in Hakurk, Metina and Gara regions, the ministry said on X. It reiterated T\u00fcrkiye&#8217;s determination to eliminate terrorism \u201cat its source.\u201d Turkish authorities use the term &#8220;neutralize&#8221; to imply the terrorists in question surrendered [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":9418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9417"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}