{"id":37467,"date":"2025-07-08T18:24:21","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T18:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/?p=37467"},"modified":"2025-07-08T18:24:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T18:24:21","slug":"pakistan-condoles-death-of-12-turkish-soldiers-in-iraq-methane-gas-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/37467","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan condoles death of 12 Turkish soldiers in Iraq methane gas incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ISLAMABAD: Pakistan conveyed condolences over the martyrdom of 12 Turkish soldiers after they were exposed to methane gas during a search mission in northern Iraq.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are deeply saddened to learn that 12 Turkish soldiers were martyred, after being exposed to methane gas during a search mission in the Claw-Lock Operation zone,\u201d foreign office spokesperson Shafqat Ali Khan said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>He prayed for Allah\u2019s mercy upon the martyrs and expressed deepest condolences to the bereaved families.<\/p>\n<p>The spokesperson also reiterated that Pakistan stood in firm solidarity with brotherly Turkiye in this moment of grief.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Turkish state-run Anadolu news agency, 12 soldiers died after being exposed to methane gas during a search operation in northern Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>The soldiers were carrying out a sweep operation in a cave at an altitude of 2,795 feet used by militants of the outlawed PKK terror group in the Operation Claw-Lock zone when the incident occurred.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Pakistan conveyed condolences over the martyrdom of 12 Turkish soldiers after they were exposed to methane gas during a search mission in northern Iraq. \u201cWe are deeply saddened to learn that 12 Turkish soldiers were martyred, after being exposed to methane gas during a search mission in the Claw-Lock Operation zone,\u201d foreign office spokesperson [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":37103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,32,1476],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-pakistan","category-turkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37468,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37467\/revisions\/37468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}