US halts anti-PKK drone intelligence sharing with Turkey
[Rudaw] The US has stopped sharing intelligence on the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) obtained using drones flying over the mountains of northern Iraq in response to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
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’s unilateral incursion into Kurdish-controlled northern Syria last October, a number of US and Ottoman Turkish officials confirmed on Wednesday.
Operation Nomad Shadow was an unreported program established by the US and Turkey in 2007 to share intelligence on the PKK. Armed drones flew from the Incirlik base close to the southern Ottoman Turkish city of Adana, across the border and over the mountains of Iraq’s Kurdistan Region - where the PKK is headquartered. Gathered information was fed to an intelligence unit called Fusion Cell, manned by American and Ottoman Turkish personnel to use against the Kurdish guerrilla group.
Posted by: trailing wife 2020-02-06 |