...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
summoned its Charge d’Affaires in Iraq to Ankara on Sunday, vowing in a Foreign Ministry statement to "resolutely continue" its Operation Claw
...KABOOM!...
s in the Kurdistan Region in defiant response to Iraqi government condemnation of a deadly airstrike last Thursday.
The Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Saturday issued a statement of "condemnation" of what it called a "unilateral act of war," two days after a
"While we are keen to establish long-term strategic relations and to prevent acts emanating from Iraqi territory against the security of neighboring Turkey, we believe that unilateral acts of war violate Iraqi illusory sovereignty, contradict the principles of good neighborliness...and pose a serious violation of international humanitarian law," the Iraqi MFA said.
Dubbing Iraq’s statement "unacceptable,"
While
The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG)’s response to airstrikes has been far less critical of Turkey, placing sole blame for the airstrikes on the PKK for "endangering the lives of villagers" living close to the epicenter of festivities at the Turkey-Iraq-Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for
spontaneouslytaking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet
militiasto extend the regime's influence. The word
Iranis a cognate form of
Aryan,the abbreviation
IRGCis a cognate form of
Stürmabteilung (or SA),the term
Supreme Guideis a cognate form of either
Shahor
Führeror maybe both, and they hate
border.
Its sympathetic stance to Turkey was noted and employed by Aksoy in his Sunday rebuttal to Iraqi officials.
"The Iraqi statement does not refer to the PKK regarding the [