Turkish military says it killed 18 Kurdish militants
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ISTANBUL - The Turkish military said on Friday it had killed 12 Kurdish militants in southeast Turkey and another six in air strikes in northern Iraq, while also targeting their allied fighters in northern Syria.
Twelve of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) guerrillas were "neutralised" on Thursday in the Cukurca district of Hakkari province, near the Iraqi border, the army statement said.
In northern Iraq, the Turkish air strikes hit the Avashin Basyan region, killing six PKK fighters and destroying four targets on Thursday, it added.
In another statement on its operation to drive Islamic State and the Kurdish YPG militia away from the border in northern Syria, the army said it fired on 40 ISIS and six YPG targets on Thursday, leaving them 'incapable of manoeuvre'.
