The Turkish Ministry of Defense announced a “rocket attack on a Turkish military facility near the Syrian border.”

Earlier in the day, the Turkish Defense Ministry reported that “7 members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) were killed in northern Iraq”, explaining that “they were killed after their whereabouts were established. This is happening as part of the ongoing Castle Claw and Tiger Claw operations in Iraq.

“The inevitable fate of the terrorists is clear,” she said in a statement, stressing that counter-terrorism operations will continue as usual. Last April, Ankara launched Operation Claw-Castle against the positions of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party and factions loyal to it in northern Iraq, which Ankara classifies as terrorist entities.

Last July, Iraq filed a complaint with the UN Security Council against Turkey and summoned its charge d’affaires from Ankara after Baghdad accused Turkey of bombing a tourist resort in the northern province of Dohuk that killed 9 people and injured 23.