"Some of our brothers were captured by these terrorists for five months, while another some for six months. From that day to this, we have been thinking about how to save our brothers from terrorists. We tried very hard. Finally, we wanted to rescue our brothers on the night of the operation. We said we would enter all the henhouses of terrorists. During this period, 42 terrorists have been killed," Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said, Report informs.
"I ask God to bless our three martyrs and 13 more soldiers, who were killed in the Operation Claw-Eagle 2 that we launched to destroy terrorist cells in northern Iraq," he said.