Turkey

Turkish troops killed 20 PKK terrorists during a major operation in eastern Turkey, far from the Iraqi border. A bomb blast in Izmit wounded three anti-PKK demonstrators. The government said both diplomatic and military options to deal with the PKK in northern Iraq are still on the table.

Bill Roggio is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the Editor of FDD's Long War Journal.

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