ANKARA
A Turkish soldier has been killed in a terrorist attack in northern Iraq, the Ministry of National Defense said Sunday.
Contract infantryman Firat Guner suffered serious injuries in an attack in Operation Pence-Simsek on Saturday, the ministry said in a statement.
He succumbed to his in the hospital, he added.
The ministry praised Guner as a “heroic martyr” and offered its condolences to the soldier’s family.
Operation Pence-Simsek is part of a series of offensives launched in Türkiye since 2019 against terrorist teams in northern Iraq, the PKK.
During its terrorist crusade of more than 35 years against Turkey, the PKK -indexed as a terrorist organization through Turkey, USA. and the EU – has been guilty of the deaths of more than 40,000 people, including women, young people and babies.