Turkey this week struck a position of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in Iraqi territory, "
140 km from the border
", Defense Minister Hulusi Akar announced Thursday, September 29.
“
We conducted an air operation in northern Iraq on Monday, in the Asos region 140 km from the border
,” announced the minister who was traveling to Sirnak, in the Kurdish-majority southeast. from Turkey.
According to Hulusi Akar, it was a "
PKK command
" post, which Ankara and its Western allies consider an armed terrorist movement.
“
Sixteen caves used by the PKK have been destroyed
,” he said, without specifying whether there were any victims in this mountainous region.
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Since mid-April the Turkish army has been carrying out operations against the positions of the PKK and its allies in northern Iraq and threatens to launch, simultaneously, a vast offensive against PKK fighters in northern Syria to create a security zone along its southern border.
The threats have not been implemented at this stage, due to the hostility of Russia - which supports pro-Damascus movements -, and the United States which has supported Kurdish movements fighting against the group State Islamic.
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