The Turkish Ministry of Defense announced the death of a fourth soldier, who was wounded last night in an attack by militants of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) on a Turkish army unit stationed in northern Iraq.

The Turkish defense stated in a new statement today, Thursday, that Sergeant / Mustafa Cesar / was seriously injured after he was shot by gunmen from the Kurdistan Workers' Party in the "Claw Lock" operations area, and was subsequently transferred to the hospital, but he died as a result of his severe injury.

The Turkish Defense Ministry announced at dawn today the killing of Lieutenant Fatih Ugur Altin Bash, Sergeant Kemal Ozak, and Private Mahmoud Uchidag, after their unit stationed in northern Iraq, in charge of claw lock operations, was attacked by armed men affiliated with the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).

The Turkish defense stated in its statement that 3 soldiers were also wounded during an exchange of fire with the Kurdish militants.

It is noteworthy that the Turkish defense had announced earlier that seven officers and 37 soldiers had been killed in its operations against the PKK militants in northern Iraq, bringing what the Turkish Defense officially announced in terms of the losses of the Turkish army in the operations of what it called / Claw Lock / the killing of seven officers and 38 soldiers and wounding 43 others since it began its operations on the eighteenth of April of last year./ End

Source: National Iraqi News Agency