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Erdoğan says 100 PKK terrorists killed last week

Anadolu Agency TÜRKIYE
Published December 02,2017
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President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said a hundred terrorists were 'neutralized' in operations against the PKK terrorist group across Turkey last week.

Addressing a crowd in Turkey's northeast Kars province, Erdoğan said: "If they [PKK] continue their efforts on dividing this country, those hundred will be 200, 300, 1,000."

"Nobody should think that they can harm our territorial integrity," Erdoğan said. "They should know that we will continue to bomb them with F-16 jets, like we did it on Mount Cudi, Mount Tendurek and Mount Qandil," referrring to ongoing security operations in eastern and southeastern Turkey and northern Iraq, respectively.

The PKK -- recognized as a terrorist group by Turkey, the U.S., and the EU -- has taken thousands of lives in decades of attacks in Turkey, including 1,200 since July 2015 alone when it resumed its armed campaign against the Turkish state.

Later, Erdoğan attended a meeting of the ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party's ordinary congress.

Speaking at the meeting, Erdoğan once again dismissed the allegations against him and his relatives made by country's main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu.

Last Tuesday, Kılıçdaroğlu, in a speech to party lawmakers, presented documents he alleged were evidence of his claims that relatives of the president had money abroad.

"There is no money that was sent abroad. These are some receipts of a [money] transfer between Halkbank and Al Baraka [banks in Turkey]," Erdoğan said.

The AK Party has accused Kılıçdaroğlu of telling "lies", calling on him to present the documents in court to prove the claims.

Erdoğan has rejected the allegations and vowed to resign if they are proved.