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In the week of March 24, 2008, Turkey's military announced that it had killed at least 15 rebels in northern Iraq after firing on them with long-range weapons. A spokesman for the Iraqi Kurdish Regional Security Forces, however, denied the report, saying Turkey has not conducted any military operation or air assault there in the previous two weeks.
Iran began a new military push against Kurdish rebels on the border with Iraq, days after Turkey said its air strikes had killed up to 160 militants inside Iraqi territory. Iran said it had killed dozens of members of Party of Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK), an offshoot of the Turkey-based Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). [15]
PKK also claimed a Kurdish women was killed by Turkish forces in the operation. Turkey denied these claims. [11] [12] United Nations High Commission for Refugees said that 1,800 villagers from villages around Sulaymaniyah and Erbil in Northern Iraq have been displaced as a result of operation. [13]
Turkey has also launched successive military operations in northern Syria, targeting the Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) which it considers a terrorist group and an extension of ...
(Bloomberg) -- Turkey carried out air strikes against US-backed Kurdish militant groups in Iraq and northern Syria in retaliation for a deadly bombing that targeted civilians in Istanbul a week ago.
Turkey continued its strikes in Syria and Iraq for a second day following the terrorist attack on a defense company in Ankara, in what Turkey said were targeted hits on PKK terrorist locations.
The Kurdish news agency Rudaw said the strikes occurred at Mount Qandil near the Iranian border. [10] Airstrikes were also reported in Gara , Hakurk , and Metina . [ 11 ] The Turkish military conducted another round of airstrikes on 3 October, with the Defence Ministry claiming to have struck 16 PKK targets in the Metina, Gara, Hakurk, Qandil ...
Turkey: President Tayyip Erdogan said that Turkey's air operations against a Kurdish militia in northern Syria were only the beginning and it would launch a land operation when convenient. [25] On 28 November, Turkish officials announced that Turkish forces would need 'just days' to be ready for a ground incursion into Syria. [26]