Turkey Mulling to Launch Operation against PKK in Northern Iraq

Turkey's deputy prime minister said Ankara reserves the right to launch an operation where there is a threat to Turkey, mentioning the top base for the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants.

News ID: 70548

Date: 05 June 2018 - 16:37

TEHRAN (Defapress)- Speaking to reporters after a Cabinet meeting in Ankara, Bekir Bozdag said about a possible military operation on Mt. Qandil, Iraq, the PKK’s headquarters, Anadolu reported.

“Turkey could enter Qandil, anything could happen,”Bozdaq said.

“Where there is a terrorist threat to Turkey, there is a target for Turkey. Both terrorists and all the resources of terrorism are the targets for Turkey,” he added.

Airstrikes on PKK in Northern Iraq, where the terror group has its main base in the Mt. Qandil region have been carried out regularly since July 2015, when the PKK resumed its armed campaign.

In its 30-year-plus campaign against Turkey, the PKK has been responsible for some 40,000 deaths.

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