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PKK bases in northern Iraq

Posted in Counterinsurgency, Iraq, Maps, Terrorism, Turkey on Feb 24th, 2008 Comments Off

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On Thursday evening, Turkish forces entered northern Iraq to do battle with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK. Iraqi foreign minister Hoshyar Zebari has called the move “a limited military incursion into a remote, isolated and uninhabited region.” According to various sources, there have been clashes in the Qandil mountains along the Iraqi-Iranian [...]

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