Turkey attacked Kurdish militant bases in retaliation for a bomb attack in Istanbul week.
Airstrikes on bases in northern Syria and northern Iraq killed 11 civilians, a journalist from the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said.
Six other people were killed in the bombing in central Istanbul. The SDF denied any involvement.
Today’s moves destroyed 89 targets, Turkey’s Defense Ministry said.
Hulusi Akar, the defense minister, insisted that “only terrorists and terrorist-owned structures were targeted” in Operation Claw Sword and said all mandatory measures had been taken for civilians.
He added: “The claw of our Turkish armed forces once back into the most sensible of terrorists. “
The ministry said the movements rank and file of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia.
Turkey considers the PKK a terrorist organization and claims that the YPG, whose bureaucracy is the backbone of the SDF, is a wing of the PKK.
Shelters, tunnels and ammunition depots in Qandil, Asos and Hakurk in Iraq and Kobani, Tal Rifat, Cizire and Derik in Syria destroyed, the ministry said.
The SDF, which said it would retaliate against the attacks, said the attacks destroyed infrastructure, grain silos, a power plant and a hospital.
Farhad Shami, head of the SDF media center, wrote on Twitter that 11 civilians, one journalist, had been killed.
No organization has claimed as much responsibility for Sunday’s Istanbul attack, which left another 80 people injured.
The PKK said it would “directly target civilians” and denied responsibility.
Earlier in the week, a Turkish official said Ankara planned to pursue targets in northern Syria after completing a cross-border operation against PKK militants in Iraq.
So far, Turkey has carried out three incursions into northern Syria against the YPG militia, and President Tayyip Erdogan has said in the past that Turkey could conduct some other operation against them.
Ankara has also stepped up drone movements in Syria in months, killing several key SDF officials.
They carry out airstrikes in northern Iraq.
The PKK, which the EU and the US have The U. S. is also a terrorist organization, it has been waging an insurgency opposed to the Turkish state since 1984.
Its purpose is to identify an independent Kurdish scene in the southeast of the country.
The United States has allied with the YPG in the fight against the Islamic State in Syria, a break with NATO’s best friend, Turkey.