The operation is aimed at hiding places of the Kurdistan Workers' Party in the Metin, Zap and Avasin-Basyan districts.
Turkey launches new cross-border anti-terrorist operation against Kurdistan Workers' Party hideouts in northern Iraq. This was announced on Monday morning by the Minister of National Defense Hulusi Akar, writes Anadolu. attack helicopters and artillery elements, especially aimed at the Metin, Zap and Avasin-Basyan districts.
Shelters, ammunition depots, headquarters, gathering places and tunnel networks are being destroyed in these areas, Akar said. PKK members often hide in northern Iraq to plan cross-border attacks in Turkey, convinced in Ankara.
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Previous operations, Tiger Claw and Eagle Claw, began in the border areas of northern Iraq in 2020. In its more than 35-year campaign against Turkey, the PKK, which Turkey, the United States and the European Union have listed as a terrorist organization, is responsible for killing at least 40,000 people, according to the Turkish agency's website.
Kurdistan is divided between Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria
It will be recalled that the Kurdistan Workers' Party was formed on November 27, 1978 as a Marxist-Leninist (with a Maoist bias) underground group. In the first years after its creation, it was marked by a series of actions against Kurdish nationalist parties (“reactionary” in its view) and “feudal lords” (representatives of the spiritual and secular traditional Kurdish elites). This has led to suspicions that the party was formed by Turkish intelligence services.
After the 1980 coup, party leaders were detained but some escaped to Syria, where they received protection under the protectorate of the Syrian intelligence service Muhabarrat “
Currently, the territory that the Kurds consider their homeland is divided between four states – Turkey (there are about 190 thousand Kurds), Iran (125 thousand), Iraq (65 thousand) and Syria. 12 thousand).
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