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Turkey says ‘successfully completed’ anti-PKK operation in Kurdistan Region
2020-09-08
[Rudaw] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
’s Defense Ministry announced on Saturday they "successfully completed" their Operation Claw-Tiger campaign against Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) positions in the Haftanin area of the Kurdistan Region's northern border with Turkey.

"Search and screening activities were successfully completed in Operation Claw Tiger, which was launched in Haftanin, northern Iraq, on June 16, 2020. Our hero commandos entered all the shelters, bunkers, and caves in the area and destroyed the terror lairs," read a tweet from the Defense Ministry.

Turkey claimed it "neutralized" 320 PKK fighters. The Ottoman Turkish military uses the term neutralized to denote persons killed, captured, or maimed in battle. The ministry also said their ground troops entered and destroyed 269 shelters and 53 caves belonging to the PKK, seizing the weaponry found there.

The Haftanin mountainous region lies near the city of Zakho, close to the Ottoman Turkish border in Duhok province.

The defense ministry’s announcement comes a day after Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani was in Ankara to meet Ottoman Turkish 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...
and Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, who said they discussed "the joint fight against PKK."

The PKK has not acknowledged Ankara-announced casualties among its own fighters, but claims to have killed several Ottoman Turkish soldiers, downed at least two helicopters, and destroyed Ottoman Turkish military and construction equipment. The PKK accused Turkey of wanting to occupy Kurdish territory.
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