JAKARTA - Turkish forces killed 24 Kurdish militants in northern Iraq and Syria over the past week.
Troops resumed attacks on the region after calls for gunfire from the PKK leader and a separate agreement between US-backed Kurdish and Damascus-backed Kurdish.
Speaking at a briefing in Ankara, a defense ministry source said the agreement between the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) led by Kurdish and Damascus did not change Turkey's commitment to counter terrorism in Syria.
Turkey is still demanding that the YPG militia, which pioneered the SDF, disband and stripped of its weapons.
Turkey views the SDF, which controls most of Syria's northeast, as a terrorist group linked to the banned Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group, which has waged decades of insurgency against the Turkish state.
SDF carried out several cross-border attacks on the group. The PKK leader, jailed in Turkey, called for the group based in Northern Iraq to strip off last month.
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