President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday announced the imminent end to the Turkish forces’ operation against Kurdish PKK fighters in northern Iraq and Syria. Turkey launched Operation Claw-Lock in April 2022 to secure its border with northern Iraq, from where it accused Kurdish separatists of launching attacks against Turkish territory. “We will very soon complete the lockdown of the area of operation in northern Iraq,” the president said, adding that Kurdish forces were now “incapable of acting inside our borders”. Erdogan said that the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) had been “completely tra…