ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Turkey will end its latest aerial military operation against the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in the Kurdistan Region in the summer, an advisor at the Turkish defense ministry said on Thursday.
Operation Claw-Lock was launched by Turkey on April 18, 2022 with the goal of targeting PKK positions in the Metina, Zap, Avashin, and Basyan areas in northern Duhok province along the Turkish border.
“The lock in Claw-Lock will be closed this summer,” Zeki Akturk, Press and Public Relations Advisor at the Turkish defense ministry, told reporters on Thursday.
He added that “rapid operations” against the Kurdish group will continue in the Region.
Turkey’s Claw-Lock Operation is part of a series of military offensives that started in 2019 against the PKK in northern Duhok province to eradicate the group in its bases in the Kurdistan Region’s mountains.