Turkey Deploys Thousands of Troops Against Kurdish Rebels -- New York Times
ISTANBUL — Turkey’s offensive against Kurdish militants this week is one of its largest military operations in years, with 10,000 troops backed by warplanes pursuing rebels in southeastern Turkey and northern Iraq, the Turkish Army said on Thursday.
The offensive began only hours after the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or P.K.K., mounted deadly attacks against the Turkish military, killing 24 soldiers and wounding 18 early on Wednesday in Hakkari Province.
In all, 22 battalions of elite commando and special-forces troops were operating against the insurgents in five locations, supported by surveillance drones, helicopters and F-16 and F-4 jets, the army said, adding that at least three militants had been killed so far and that explosives and other military equipment had been confiscated.
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