Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Hasan Küçükakyüz Ali Özmen Hulusi Akar Yaşar Güler Cemîl Bayik Murat Karayılan Turkish Armed Forces Ministry of the Interior

Unknown personnel50 aircraft including[2] 21 killed (per Turkey)[3] Claw-Lightning and Claw-Thunderbolt (Turkish: Pençe-Şimşek ve Pençe-Yıldırım Operasyonları) were Turkish Armed Forces cross border military operations in northern Iraq.

The operations took place in the Metina, Zap and Avashin-Basyan regions against Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) targets, as part of the ongoing Kurdish–Turkish conflict.

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.