| Submit your comments on this article |
| Iraq |
| Turkey bombs PKK hideouts in Iraq |
| 2010-08-30 |
| [Iran Press] The Turkish Air Force has attacked northern Iraq, bombarding the positions of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) including their main mountainous hideout. On Thursday and Friday, Turkish warplanes pounded Mount Qandil, from which the militants launch their operations against Turkey, as well as the Hakurk area, the military said in a statement, the Associated Press reported. The statement did not mention the casualties. The PKK, which is on the terrorist list of much of the international community, has been fighting Turkey since 1984. The militants called off a unilateral ceasefire in June and resumed their assaults with their spokesman Ahmed Denis warning that "We will take our operations to all Turkish cities." The Qandil mountain range is also where Israel and Israeli firms operate within the Iraqi borders. The International Strategic Research Organization, a Turkish think tank, warned earlier in the year that retired Israeli military men and members of the Israeli spy agency Mossad had been sighted providing training to PKK gunmen in Iraqi Kurdistan. An American political campaigner was detained in the city of Diyarbakir in the southeastern Turkey earlier this month for alleged PKK links, raising further suspicion of the militants' maintaining association with the foreigners. Jake Hess is suspected of collaboration with the reported PKK offshoot, the Union of Kurdistan Communities (KCK). |
| Posted by:Fred |