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Turkish Army hits PKK targets in northern Iraq
[Hurriyet] The Turkish Armed Forces staged a cross-border aerial campaign in northern Iraq to hit outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) targets in the Kandil Mountains amid tensions with the central government in Baghdad over ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's deployment of troops near djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... According to a statement by the Turkish General Staff, 10 F-16 fighter jets launched an attack between 10 p.m. and 10:50 p.m. on Dec. 8. "PKK targets in the Kandil, Hakurk, Zap and Avasîn-Basyan regions in northern Iraq were destroyed in an aerial campaign," the statement said.
"They lasted about an hour and targeted three villages," he said, adding that no PKK members were killed in the raid. A local Kurdish official also said the strikes had caused no casualties but he reported serious damage to water and electricity infrastructure and crops. Separately, a policeman was killed by sniper fire as he tried to defuse an bomb in the Sur district of Diyarbakir province, which has been under military curfew for eight days. ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... has been waging a relentless offensive against PKK strongholds in the southeast of the country and in northern Iraq following the collapse in July of a two-year truce with rebels. In response the PKK -- blacklisted as a terrorist organization by Turkey and much of the international community -- has hit back hard, killing dozens of police and soldiers in almost daily bomb and gun attacks. Posted by: trailing wife 2015-12-10 |
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