This coincided with a political offensive by Turkey, who urged Iraq to recognise the PKK as a terrorist organisation.
[4] The Kurdish and Iraqi authorities have been continuously accused of not doing enough to curb the PKK insurgency, leading to Turkish cross-border action.
[3] Two drone attacks were carried out, with the first one striking a vehicle killing a PKK official and two other insurgents.
The Turkish foreign minister, Hakan Fidan, had met and urged both Iraqi and Kurdish officials to recognise the Kurdistan Workers' Party as a terrorist organisation.
[3] When meeting with the prime minister of the Iraqi Kurdistan region, Masrour Barzani, he stated "We have settled this question in Turkey once and for all.