PKK logistics head slain in Turkish airstrikes in northern Iraq

Turkey’s military says the head of logistics for the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militant group has been killed as Turkish military aircraft conducted a series of airstrikes against terrorist hideouts in Iraq’s northern semi-autonomous Kurdistan region.

The Turkish Armed Forces (TSK), in a statement published on its official Twitter page on Thursday, announced that Hasan Cakmak, better known by the nom de guerre Delil Karakocan, was "neutralized" on July 13 when Turkish fighter jets targeted a group of three PKK members in the mountainous Qandil region of northern Iraq.

The trio were reportedly completing a deal for weapons, assault rifles and drugs.

In a separate statement, the military said Turkish airstrikes had "neutralized" nine PKK terrorists in Turkey's southeastern provinces of Sirnak and Siirt as well as northern Iraq.

Turkey’s Interior Ministry, in a statement released last Thursday, announced that high-ranking PKK terrorist Sefer Acar, better known by the nom de guerre Welat Gever, had been “neutralized” during an offensive in the Kocyigit village of the eastern province of Bitlis on June 28.

The Turkish military generally uses the term "neutralize" to signify that the militants were killed, captured or surrendered.

PKK militants regularly clash with Turkish forces in the Kurdish-dominated southeast of Turkey attached to northern Iraq.

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