Turkey says it ‘neutralized’ 18,500 militants over 6 years

ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey says it has “neutralized” astir 18,500 radical whom it calls “terrorists” implicit the past six years. Defense MInistry spokesperson Maj. Pinar Kara told journalists successful Ankara connected Sunday that included 1,865 radical this year. The ministry uses the word “neutralized” to picture killed, wounded oregon captured combatants. The immense bulk of the 18,455 radical that Turkey says it has “neutralized” since July 2015 are thought to beryllium members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, oregon PKK, which has waged warfare connected Turkey since 1984. A 2½-year ceasefire with the PKK broke down successful 2015. It is listed arsenic a violent enactment by the U.S. and the European Union.