{"id":15604,"date":"2018-12-18T04:22:25","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T04:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=15604"},"modified":"2018-12-18T04:22:25","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T04:22:25","slug":"turkey-ignores-iraqi-protests-attacks-pkk-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/turkey-ignores-iraqi-protests-attacks-pkk-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey ignores Iraqi protests, attacks PKK again"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Turkish warplanes have struck PKK\u00a0targets in northern Iraq,\u00a0ignoring protests from Baghdad which says\u00a0Turkey’s repeated airstrikes violate Iraqi sovereignty and endanger civilians.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The air raid on Saturday came a day after Baghdad summoned Turkey\u2019s ambassador over an airstrike which killed eight people in northern Iraq.<\/p>\n

Turkey said the operations “will continue as long as terror organizations nest on Iraqi soil and as long as Turkey\u2019s security needs require it to.\u201d<\/p>\n

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PressTV-Iraq summons Turkish envoy over latest airstrikes<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The Iraqi Foreign Ministry has summoned the Turkish envoy to protest Ankara\u2019s latest airstrikes against positions in northern Iraq.<\/p><\/div>\n

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said airstrikes against PKK targets in the Iraqi region of Sinjar had “turned those places into their graveyards.”<\/p>\n

“We will bury them in the holes they dug,” he added.<\/p>\n

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Turkish air attacks on PKK positions in north Dahuk Province in north Iraq block roads leading to over 50 villages.https:\/\/t.co\/GUyoRjBvUp<\/p>\n

\u2014 David M. Witty (@DavidMWitty1) December 15, 2018<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

In 2014, Turkey sent troops to the town of Bashiqa in northern Iraq under the banner of fighting the Daesh terror group without Baghdad\u2019s consent.<\/p>\n

Erdogan once famously told Iraq\u2019s then prime minister Haider al-Abadi, \u201cYou are not on my level\u201d after the latter protested the deployment that brought the two sides close to the brink of war at one point.<\/p>\n

Turkey regularly hits PKK bases across its southern border,\u00a0saying the militants use the mountainous northern Iraqi region\u00a0as a base for deadly attacks inside Turkey. The PKK has waged an insurgency since the 1980s, which has killed about 40,000 people.<\/p>\n

This week, Erdogan\u00a0announced an imminent\u00a0operation in neighboring Syria, against US-backed Kurdish militants whom Ankara views as an extension of the PKK.<\/p>\n

Turkey, he said, was “determined to bring peace and security to areas east of the Euphrates” river in northern Syria.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, the European Union’s foreign policy chief asked Turkey to forgo any unilateral military action in Syria.<\/p>\n

“The statements of a possible Turkish military operation in northeast Syria are a source of concern,” Federica Mogherini said in a statement.<\/p>\n

The Pentagon also warned Wednesday that any unilateral military action in northern Syria would be “unacceptable.”<\/p>\n

The Syrian government has condemned military intervention both by the US and its European allies and Turkey, which have deployed troops into the Arab country without the permission of Damascus.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Turkish warplanes have struck PKK\u00a0targets in northern Iraq,\u00a0ignoring protests from Baghdad which says\u00a0Turkey’s repeated airstrikes violate Iraqi sovereignty and endanger civilians. The air raid on Saturday came a day after Baghdad summoned Turkey\u2019s ambassador over an airstrike which killed eight people in northern Iraq. Turkey said the operations “will continue as long as terror organizations …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":15605,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news-and-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15606,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15604\/revisions\/15606"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}