Operations Claw-Lightning and Thunderbolt | |||||
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Part of the Kurdish–Turkish conflict | |||||
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Belligerents | |||||
Kurdistan Region (from 6 June 2021) | Kurdistan Workers' Party | ||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Nechirvan Barzani | Sofi Nurettin †[1] | ||||
Units involved | |||||
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Strength | |||||
Unknown personnel
Unknown | Unknown | ||||
Casualties and losses | |||||
21 killed (per Turkey)[3] 6 killed 7 wounded 2 captured[4][5] | 142 killed or captured (per Turkey)[6][7] |
Claw-Lightning and Claw-Thunderbolt (Turkish: Pençe-Şimşek ve Pençe-Yıldırım Operasyonları) were Turkish Armed Forces cross border military operations in northern Iraq. The operations took place in the Metina, Zap and Avashin-Basyan regions against Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) targets, as part of the ongoing Kurdish–Turkish conflict.
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