Operations Claw-Lightning and Thunderbolt

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Part of the Kurdish–Turkish conflict and Kurdish–Iranian conflict

Date	23 April 2021 – present (3 years, 8 months, 2 weeks and 5 days)
Location	Kurdistan Region, Iraq

Belligerents

Turkey

Kurdistan Workers' Party

Commanders and leaders

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Hasan Küçükakyüz Ali Özmen

Units involved

Ministry of the Interior

Gendarmerie General Command

KCK

Strength

Unknown personnel
50 aircraft including

Unknown

Casualties and losses

4 killed (per Turkey)

42 killed, wounded or captured (per Turkey)

v t e Kurdistan Workers' Party insurgency
Timeline First insurgency 1984 Karageçit N Iraq (1986) Ortabağ N Iraq (1987) Pınarcık Yeşilova Taşdelen Şırnak Kulp N Iraq (1992) Bingöl Başbağlar Lice Winter campaign Steel Tokat Hawk Tunceli Varto Sazak Hammer Dawn Murat Istanbul Blue Market Second insurgency Ankara Hakkâri (2007) N Iraq (2007) Aktütün Diyarbakır Sun Reşadiye İskenderun Hakkâri Istanbul 2011 border raid Hakkâri (2011) Roboski Hakkâri (2012) Beytüşşebap Şemdinli Third insurgency Ceylanpınar Siirt bombing Martyr Yalçın Police raids Arslan Kulaksız Şırnak Cizre (2015) Cizre (2016) Kandil Hakkari Silvan Sur Lice Dürümlü 2015 airport bombing Ankara (Feb 2016) Ankara (Mar 2016) Bursa Istanbul (Jun 2016) Istanbul (Oct 2016) Istanbul (Dec 2016) N Iraq (2016) Elazığ Cizre Euphrates Shield Şemdinli Kayseri İzmir Airstrikes in Syria & Iraq Olive Branch Siirt raid Sinjar (2018) Gercüş Claw Peace Spring Claw-Eagle & Claw-Tiger İskenderun Claw-Eagle 2 Claw-Lightning & Thunderbolt Sinjar (2021) Claw-Lock Zakho Istanbul (2022) Claw-Sword Syria (2023 June) Ankara (2023) Syria (2023 Oct) TAI (2024) Serhildan 1990 1991 1992 1999 2001 2005 2006 2008 2009 2011–2012 2014 Peace process and peace efforts 1991–2004 Kurdish–Turkish peace initiatives 1993 Kurdistan Workers' Party ceasefire 2013–2015 Solution process Others Assassinations

Kurdistan Workers' Party insurgency

Timeline

First insurgency

Second insurgency

Third insurgency

Serhildan

Peace process and peace efforts

Others

Assassinations

The joint Claw-Lightning and Claw-Thunderbolt operations (Turkish: Pençe-Şimşek Operasyonu and Pençe-Yıldırım Operasyonu) are ongoing Turkish Armed Forces cross border operations in northern Iraq. The operations are taking place place in the Metina, Zap and Avashin-Basyan regions against Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) targets, as part of the ongoing Kurdish–Turkish conflict.

Operations

The operations began on the evening of 23 April 2021, with air and howitzer strikes targeting PKK positions in Northern Iraq. In the following hours of the strikes Turkish paratroopers and commandos airdropped from Chinook and Black Hawk helicopters to the points of Metina, Zap and Avashin-Basyan regions. Turkish Defense Ministry announced the "neutralization" of 42 militants and the destruction 500 targets while announcing 4 KIA of their own.

References

^ Ergan, Uğur; Altuncu, Özgür (25 April 2021). "Komandolar Kuzey Irak'ta". Hürriyet. Retrieved 30 April 2021.
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^ "6 günde 42 terörist etkisiz hale getirildi". Milliyet. 30 April 2021. Retrieved 30 April 2021.

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