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Turkey reinvigorates Operation Claw in Kurdistan Region against PKK
 ...Qatar's colony in Asia Minor...has begun its second wave of Operation Claw against Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) guerillas in the Khakurk area south of Turkey’s border with the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. The first phase commenced in late-May. "On the evening of July 12, a new operation named Claw 2 was launched with our Commando Brigades in the north of Iraq to destroy caves and shelters used by a terror organization. This is a follow-up on the successfully ongoing Claw 1 operation in the Hakurk [Khakurk] area which revealed new information on terrorist activity," read a statement from the Ankara is branding the new offensive ’Operation Claw 2.’ Hakurk is in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, close to the borders with Turkey and Iran. It is located just north of Qandil, where the PKK is headquartered about 52 kilometers northeast of the regional capital city of Erbil. "The operation continues as planned," it added, detailing Turkey is supporting it with Air Force planes, ground fire support vehicles, TAI/AgustaWestland (ATAK) attack helicopters and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The ministry has claimed it "neutralized" dozens of PKK fighters in the framework of Operation Claw, but the Kurdish group has refuted the figure. Ankara uses the word neutralized to refer to those killed, maimed, or otherwise removed from the battlefield. The PKK has also claimed the lives of a number of On the 38th anniversary of the July 14 event in a Diyarbakir prison, the PKK announced "Halat Retaliation Year" on Saturday. It is a reference to the killing of senior PKK leader Diyar Ghareen, known as Halmat by his comrades, during A group of Kurds were held in Diyarbakir prison after a 1980 military coup in Turkey. Abused in the jail, a group of the prisoners went on a hunger strike. The incident is commemorated by sympathizers remembered every year. A film about it called ’14 Temmuz’ (July 14) has sometimes been banned by the Firat News Agency (ANF), media affiliated with the PKK, published footage on Friday, purportedly showing The attacks took place on June 21 in Hakkari, on June 29 in Avasin, and on July 5 in Uludere, killing six soldiers, according to ANF. The People's Defence Forces (HPG), the armed wing of the PKK, released photographs of two of its fighters who it claimed were killed in festivities with the The Kurdistan Regional Government and Iraqi federal government repeatedly have called on gangs not to launch attacks against neighboring countries from within the country. Kurdish groups opposed to the Iranian regime have also come under retaliatory attacks in recent days by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in areas just south of Hakurk and Qandil in recent days. Posted by: trailing wife 2019-07-14 |
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