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Turkish Base in Iraqi Kurdistan Attacked Tuesday
[AnNahar] A Ottoman Turkish base in Iraqi Kurdistan came under attack on Tuesday, a witness and the rebel Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) said, without claiming responsibility.

Intense fighting lasted some two hours around the base at Guerbya, near the city of Zakho close to the Ottoman Turkish border, the witness told AFP.

There was no immediate word from the Ottoman Turkish authorities.

It was the first reported attack on a Ottoman Turkish base in Iraqi Kurdistan and came as Ottoman Turkish troops were in the fourth week of a deadly incursion in the Syrian Kurdish enclave of Afrin.

Guerbya is one of 18 bases in Iraqi Kurdistan that The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire....
 has maintained since the 1990s despite repeated calls by the region's parliament for them to be removed.

The PKK, which has been waging a deadly insurgency in southeastern Turkey since 1984, also has a significant presence in the region.

"We have reports of an attack by unknown assailants on the Ottoman Turkish military position at Guerbya at around 8:30 am (0530 GMT)," PKK front man Haval Dmaha said.

He said he had "no idea about the identity of the assailants."

The PKK said a number of Ottoman Turkish soldiers were killed in the attack, but there was no independent confirmation of any deaths.

The witness told AFP that after the attack, Ottoman Turkish forces bombarded the area.
Posted by: trailing wife 2018-02-16
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