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Turkey to ‘secure’ Iraq border in the summer, says Erdogan
[Rudaw] ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... ’s President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First  ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...on Monday said that Ankara is close to completing a zone that will "permanently resolve" the security issues along their border with the Kurdistan Region and Iraq by the summer. "We are about to complete the circle that will secure our Iraqi borders," said Erdogan following the Ottoman Turkish government’s weekly cabinet meeting in Ankara. "This summer, we will have permanently resolved the issue concerning our Iraqi borders," he added. Erdogan also called on everyone in the region to respect Ankara’s security strategy, "Otherwise, they will be the cause of the tensions that will arise," he said. Last month, Erdogan said that Ankara will take more "effective measures" towards securing its southern border and will have "largely completed fortifications" in the Kurdistan Region’s mountainous areas in the summer. "During the summer months, we will have largely completed our fortifications in the Operation Claw region, allowing us to take far more effective measures," Erdogan said at the time. Operations Claw are a series of military operations by the Ottoman Turkish army in the mountainous areas of the Kurdistan Region targeting positions of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), aiming to eradicate the group. The first iteration of Operation Claw was launched in May 2019 and was then followed by Operation Claw-Tiger in 2020. The third iteration of the offensive, launched in April 2021, consisted of two simultaneous cross-border campaigns, a ground campaign, and an air campaign, dubbed Operation Claw-Lightning and Operation Claw-Thunderbolt. A year later, Turkey launched Operation Claw-Lock. Turkey has recently upped its attacks against the PKK in the Kurdistan Region. It has also intensified its targeting of Kurdish fighters in northern Syria due to their alleged ties with the PKK. Kurdish civilians and rights organizations have criticized Turkey’s military campaign as civilian lives and property are frequently caught in the crossfire. In late February, the Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT), a human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. organization that monitors Turkey’s operation in the Kurdistan Region, told Rudaw that Ankara has conducted 1548 attacks in the Region in 2023. Posted by: trailing wife 2024-03-07 |
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