Extensive military operations against the Kurdish organization PKK have been conducted in recent hours the Turkish army in Iraq and Syria.

Turkish airstrikes destroyed 25 targets in northern Syria, Iraq, “many terrorists were neutralized,” Turkey’s Ministry of National Defense announced.

The Turkish security forces “neutralized at least 57 PKK terrorists in northern Iraq and Syria in the last 24 hours,” Ankara announced on Saturday.

“In the last 24 hours, the number of neutralized terrorists has increased to 57. Our operations are continuing with determination,” the ministry said. He added that “48 of the terrorists were in northern Iraq, while nine were in northern Syria.”

Turkey will not allow the creation of a “terrorist” state on its southern border and it is its main priority to eliminate once and for all the threat of “terrorism” wherever it comes from, it is stated among other things in the statement issued after the emergency government security council convened by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Tayyip Erdogan in his office at Dolmabahce Palace in Istanbul, a day after nine Turkish soldiers were killed in a PKK attack in northern Iraq.

“This fight will continue until the last terrorist is neutralized and the terrorist swamps in Iraq and Syria are completely ‘drained’,” the country’s Communications Directorate said.

PKK members often hide in northern Iraq to plan cross-border attacks in Turkey. The group also has a Syrian branch, known as the YPG.