Erdogan says 100 PKK terrorists killed last week

By Baris Gundogan

KARS, Turkey (AA) - President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said a hundred terrorists were 'neutralized' in operations against the PKK terrorist group across Turkey last week.

Addressing a crowd in Turkey's northeast Kars province, Erdogan said: "If they [PKK] continue their efforts on dividing this country, those hundred will be 200, 300, 1,000."

"Nobody should think that they can separate our territorial integrity," Erdogan said. "They should know that we will continue to bomb them with F-16 jets, like we did it Mount Cudi, Mount Tendurek and Mount Qandil."

The PKK -- recognized as a terrorist group by Turkey, the U.S., and the EU -- has taken thousands of lives in decades of attacks in Turkey, including 1,200 since July 2015 alone.