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| Cobra air fighters supported military attacks on south east Turkey |
| 2007-01-20 |
| (KUNA) -- The Turkish army started Friday a wide scale land-air winter attacks against the separatists in south east Turkey. Turkish media reported that hundreds of paratroopers took positions close to areas of the separatists in Tongali city and the camps believed to house separatists were bombed. The police command employed two Cobra jet fighters that are still intensively bombing camps of the separatists Yesterday, Turkey welcomed a raid by U.S. and Iraqi forces on a refugee camp of Turkish Kurds in northern Iraq as a first step towards combating Kurdish rebels, but insisted the camp must be shut down. Iraqi and U.S. troops conducted a search operation earlier at the Makhmur refugee camp in northern Iraq, which Ankara has long argued provides a safe haven for militants from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). Ankara has been urging U.S. forces to crack down on the Turkish Kurd PKK rebels, who use Kurdish northern Iraq as a base. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 Probably simply the general stupidity of the media worldwide when it comes to military equipment : the US has supplied the Turks with Cobra attack helicopters and F-16s. So, some dumbassed reporter reports CAS by combining the two very different aircraft, giving a really cool tag name to run with. |
| Posted by: Shieldwolf 2007-01-20 16:19 |
| #3 What the hell is a "Cobra jet fighter"? This is probably a G.I. Joe reference. It means the Turks are in league with the bad guys. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2007-01-20 10:20 |
| #2 What the hell is a "Cobra jet fighter"? |
| Posted by: Parabellum 2007-01-20 09:58 |
| #1 Where's the earlier article about Kurds moving soldiers to Bagdad? Seems strange to attack a set of allies. Were they enrolled in the Bagdad occupation to diminish their forces? Who's watching the ones in Bagdad? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2007-01-20 02:09 |