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Iraq
Turkey's Erdogan says operations begin in Iraq's Sinjar region
2018-03-27
[AlAhram] President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday that The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund....
had begun operations in Iraq's Sinjar region, an area where it has threatened a military incursion, two days after sources said Kurdish PKK bully boyz would withdraw from the area.

"We said we would go into Sinjar. Now operations have begun there. The fight is internal and external," Erdogan told a crowd in the Black Sea province of Trabzon, without elaborating on what operations he was referring to.

Iraq's Joint Operations Command denied that any foreign forces had crossed the border into Iraq.

"The operations command confirmed that the situation in Nineveh, Sinjar and the border areas was under the control of Iraqi security forces and there is no reason for troops to cross the Iraqi border into those areas," it said in a statement.

Sources in Sinjar said there was no unusual military activity in the area on Sunday.

President Tayyip Erdogan said last week the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) were creating a new base in Sinjar, and that Ottoman Turkish forces would attack if necessary.

Sources in northern Iraq said on Friday the PKK would withdraw from Sinjar, where it gained a foothold in 2014 after coming to the aid of the Yazidi minority community, who were under attack by Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
murderous Moslems.

Qatari paper: Turkey set up barracks, deployed tanks inside Iraqi territories

Baghdad (Iraqinews.com) ‐ A Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
i newspaper has claimed that the Ottoman Turkish army set up 19 military barracks and deployed tanks inside Iraqi territories to face the threat of Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) fighters.

The London-based al-Araby al-Jadeed paper quoted a local source as saying on Monday that the Ottoman Turkish army established the barracks inside Kurdish and Assyrian villages and built a fence around them.

"The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
also deployed tanks and medium-range artillery systems that are capable of reaching the depth of the Kurdistan region," according to the source.

He pointed out the Ottoman Turkish move came as part of Ankara efforts to secure borders between Iraq and Turkey against the PKK threat.
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