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| Turkey may start operation to expel PKK from Qandil Mountains |
| 2018-06-05 |
| [ALMASDARNEWS] ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire.... may soon start an operation against the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in Iraq’s Qandil Mountains, Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said Monday, as quoted by Daily Sabah newspaper. "It is not a matter of operation, but a matter of timing. Qandil is no longer a faraway goal for us," Soylu stated. The main base of the PKK, designated as a terrorist organization in Turkey, is reportedly located in the Qandil Mountains, an Iraqi mountainous area near the Iranian border. Last January Turkey and the Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... (FSA) opposition forces launched Operation Olive Branch in the Syrian northern district of Afrin aimed at "clearing" Turkey’s Syrian border of the YPG and the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD). In March, Ankara announced that Afrin was under complete control of |
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