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| The Grand Turk |
| Kurdish militants attack Turkish troops; Turkish jets hit N.Iraq |
| 2018-06-21 |
| [AlAhram] Kurdish forces of Evil fired on military vehicles in southeast ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... on Wednesday, killing two soldiers and wounding another, the local governor's office said, in the latest of a series of attacks. Turkey's armed forces later said its warplanes had carried out air strikes in northern Iraq, killing 10 forces of Evil in the Avasin-Basyan and Sinat Haftanin areas and destroying weapon stores and shelters. The incidents come ahead of nationwide elections on Sunday. There has been a wave of "Members of the separatist terror group carried out a rocket attack in which two military personnel were martyred and one maimed," the Hakkari provincial governor's office said, using Ankara's term for the PKK. The attack on Wednesday morning targeted military vehicles leaving a hillside base in Cukurca district of the province, on the border with Iraq, it said. Ankara has warned it might launch a ground offensive into the Qandil region, where high-ranking PKK members are believed to be based. President Tayyip Erdogan has vowed to "drain the terror swamp" there. Erdogan said on Wednesday Turkey had carried out two air operations targeting Qandil, the second of which had struck a meeting of PKK commanders. "We dealt with a team of their leaders that was meeting in Qandil," Erdogan said during a campaign rally in the southeastern province of Sanliurfa. He did not provide further details or say when the strikes occurred. On Tuesday, three |
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