Turkey air strikes aimed at rebel Kurds with the PKK were launched last week killing 55 to 60 of the militant terrorists, as well as munitions depots.
The F-16 and F-4 fighter jets were launched targeting caves, houses and camps of the PKK, according to the Jordan Times.
Although it is hard to confirm these numbers, since the PKK does not give figures for their dead, but officials are confident with the numbers claimed.
"Following instructions from our Prime Minister (Ahmet Davutoglu) we will advertise for 5,000 'village guardians' in the press," Interior Minister Selami Altinok said, according to Al Jazeera.
The village guardian program was created in the 1980s in hopes of containing the PKK. The 70,000 members draw a government salary.
An anti-terrorism rally in Istanbul on Sunday will be addressed by Turkey's president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, discussing this decades long battle between the PKK and the state.
The Turkish government has been cracking down against the ISIS militants and PKK, including allowing the U.S. military to use Incirlik Air Base, near the Syrian/Turkey Border to launch air strike operations into Syria, according to the international Business Times.
Senior militant PKK officials have warned that Turkey will "pay a heavy price" for it's ongoing attacks against them.
