{"id":21341,"date":"2019-04-21T12:21:44","date_gmt":"2019-04-21T04:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=21341"},"modified":"2019-04-21T12:27:18","modified_gmt":"2019-04-21T04:27:18","slug":"four-turkish-soldiers-killed-in-operation-near-iraqi-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=21341","title":{"rendered":"Four Turkish Soldiers Killed In Operation Near Iraqi Border"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>ANKARA, Turkey, April 21 (NNN-ANADOLU) &#8211; Turkey&#8217;s Defence Ministry said on Saturday that, four Turkish soldiers were killed and six others injured in operation against Kurdistan militants near the border with Iraq.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A military base was attacked on Friday night in Cukurca district, in Turkey&#8217;s south-eastern province of Hakkari, Demiroren News Agency reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Turkish military responded immediately with a &#8220;large-scale&#8221; and intense strike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The terrorists came under heavy fire from Turkish air operations and fire support,&#8221; the ministry said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Kurdistan Workers&#8217; Party (PKK), listed as a terrorist organisation by Turkey, the U.S. and the EU, resumed its 30-year armed campaign against the Turkish state in July, 2015, after a brief reconciliation period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Turkish military has been carrying out anti-terror operations against the PKK in northern Iraq since then, with main focus on Qandil region, where the group&#8217;s main base is located.&#8211; NNN-ANADOLU  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANKARA, Turkey, April 21 (NNN-ANADOLU) &#8211; Turkey&#8217;s Defence Ministry said on Saturday that, four Turkish soldiers were killed and six others injured in operation against Kurdistan militants near the border with Iraq. A military base was attacked on Friday night in Cukurca district, in Turkey&#8217;s south-eastern province of Hakkari, Demiroren News Agency reported. The Turkish [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":21343,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[209,217],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21341"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}