The Turkish Ministry of Defense announced, late on Tuesday, the launch of the military “Claw – Tiger” operation in Haftanin area, northern Iraq.
She indicated that they arrived in the area with the support of the Air Force.
On Sunday evening, Turkey announced the launch of the “claw-eagle” military operation in northern Iraq against the PKK.
In the past years, Turkish forces have carried out intensive operations against Kurdish militants, whom they consider terrorists, in both Iraq and Syria, saying that this is in response to attacks launched or planned by elements of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which Turkey has been fighting for more than 3 decades within The country and beyond.
It should be noted that the Iraqi Foreign Ministry summoned yesterday, Tuesday, the Turkish Ambassador to Baghdad, and delivered a memorandum of protest against the background of the Turkish bombing, which hit a number of regions in northern Iraq at dawn on Monday.
Source: RT + Agencies
