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Asharq Al-Awsat
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Turkey: 2 Soldiers Killed, 8 Wounded in Northern Iraq

Turkish armored military vehicles patrol on the Turkish-Syrian border line in Reyhanli, Hatay province, Turkey, October 8, 2017. REUTERS/Osman Orsal

Two Turkish soldiers were killed and eight others were wounded on Saturday in a clash during operations into northern Iraq, Turkey's defense ministry said.

Six fighters, including a woman, were "neutralized" during the operations, the ministry said in a statement, according to Reuters.

The Turkish army uses the term neutralize when it has killed, captured or wounded combatants

Turkey regularly carries out air strikes on Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) bases in northern Iraq, as President Tayyip Erdogan pursues his aim of ending the group's presence near Turkey's borders.

The PKK, considered a terrorist organization by the United States, the European Union and Turkey, has waged a three-decade insurgency in Turkey's largely Kurdish southeast that has killed about 40,000 people.

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