...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...has good reason for its military incursions into Iraqi territory pursuing the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), Iraq’s defense minister said on Monday.
"What Turkey is doing is called breaches, and these breaches have justification," Jouma Anad said during the Rafidain Center for Dialogue (RCD) forum in Baghdad. "They have a party named PKK and it is present in northern Iraq."