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Iraq
Turkey strikes suspected PKK positions after Ankara attack
2023-10-03
[Rudaw] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
on Sunday night launched retaliatory aerial strikes targeting suspected Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) positions in the Kurdistan Region, hours after the group attacked the Ottoman Turkish capital’s general security directorate.

The Ottoman Turkish defense ministry announced in a statement that it carried out Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s on 20 suspected PKK positions in the Metina, Khakurk, Gara, and Qandil regions of the Kurdistan Region, claiming to have destroyed shelters, depots, and caves belonging to the group.

It justified the attacks by saying they were in line with "the right of self defense" within Article 15 of the Charter of the United Nations
...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense...
The strikes came hours after two coppers were slightly maimed in an attack on Ankara’s general security directorate. One of the attackers went kaboom! while the other was "neutralized," according to the Ottoman Turkish interior minister.

The PKK grabbed credit for the attack, near the Ottoman Turkish parliament and ministerial buildings in Ankara. The main boulevard near the entrance of the parliament building was closed to traffic due to the earth-shattering kaboom.

"This action is an act of legitimate defense against the disregard of human rights
When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much...
that are being trampled on against national and international laws; against the inhumane practice and policy of isolation that is being implemented in all the jails of Turkey and Kurdistan," read the HPG statement," the People’s Defense Forces (HPG), the military arm of the PKK, said in a statement.

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...
labeled the attack as "the last struggle of terrorism."

Following a parliament meeting, Erdogan said on X that his country is preparing to "extend its military successes," hinting at further cross-border operations against the PKK and its alleged offshoots in the Kurdistan Region and Syria.

"Our new steps are a matter of preparation, time, and environment. For this reason, we say that the words ’we may suddenly come one night’ should always be heard," he said.

The PKK is an gang struggling for the increased rights of Kurds in Turkey and designated a terrorist organization by Ankara.

Iraq’s four presidencies — the prime minister, president, parliament speaker, and head of judiciary — rejected all violations of Iraqi illusory sovereignty an hour after Turkey’s strikes.

They "firmly rejected any aggression directed at Iraqi territory, emphasizing that such actions run counter to principles of good neighborliness and pose a threat to security and stability both within Iraq and in the wider region," said a statement from Prime Minister Mohammed Shia’ al-Sudan
...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans...
i’s office. They instead called for dialogue and mutual understanding to resolve the issues.
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