edition Telegram-the channel "Rybar" parses, why Turkey needed to start an operation in Iraqi Kurdistan and why everything new is well forgotten old.
in the evening 14 June 2020 Turkish Defense Ministry announces launch of Operation Eagle Claw in Iraqi Kurdistan. Per night, according to the report of the Ministry of Defense, Turkish Air Force hit 81 Kurdistan Workers' Party facility in northern Iraq.
Our Operation with the Claw-Eagle Operation, a shelter for terrorists who threaten our nation and border security, consisting of shelters and caves 81 target destroyed. Our planes have returned to their base safely. # MSB # TSK # PençeKartal
— T.C. National Defense Department (@tcsavun Up) June 15, 2020
The main area of the operation is the Kandil mountain range in the Iraq-Iranian border, Sinjar, Zap, Avasin-Basyan and Hakurk. The purpose of the operation is “ensuring the security of the Turkish people and the state border through the neutralization of the PKK and other terrorist organizations, organizing attacks on police and military bases ”.
Turkey’s jets have carried out new cross-border airstrikes targeting Turkish Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq. https://t.co/8pmInb0XMP pic.twitter.com/ybkyowdDb5
— ABC News (@ABC) June 15, 2020
The Eagle Claw is led by the Secretary of Defense Hulusi Akara. Direct management of the lines of command is carried out by the chief of the General Staff Yashar Guler, Ground Forces commanders Umit Dundar, Turkish Air Force Hasan Kyuchyukakyuz and Turkish Navy Adnan Ozbal.
In the planning of the operation against #PKK terrorists in Northern Iraq, Turkey ???????? neutralised 81 Terrorists targets including terrorists hideouts and supplies. Turkish Forces took great care to protect civilians,this is might of the Turkish armed forces ???????? pic.twitter.com/xfp6iyJLrV
— Sharon Eğritepe (@Sobrienegritepe) June 15, 2020
Operation Eagle Claw is a natural continuation of Turkish policy in Iraqi Kurdistan. This is far from the first and not the last operation: under the pretext of countering the PKK in the region, Turkey is operating in northern Iraq 20 plus years, simultaneously solving the problems of “soft annexation” of northern Iraq.
First images from the #PawKartalOperation, where terrorist nests were destroyed with sudden air operations.. ???????? #MSB #TSK pic.twitter.com/U0yp0kgx6H
— T.C. National Defense Department (@tcsavun Up) June 15, 2020
"Demonstration of military power"
#Iraq & #Turkey ????????????????: Turkish aircraft carried out a series of strikes overnight in various locations across northern Iraq targeting PKK fighters – Iraqi politicians have condemned the attacks pic.twitter.com/2c0BbfAi5b
— Intelligence Fusion -Asia (@IF_Asia_) June 15, 2020
Iraqi Military Information Office - Information Authority, which includes representatives of all law enforcement agencies, - stated, that Iraqi airspace invaded 18 Turkish Air Force planes and advanced on 193 km inland up to Al-Sharkat (province Salah ed-Din). This is no longer Iraqi Kurdistan, and territories controlled by official Baghdad.
We condemn the breach of Iraqi airspace by Turkish aircraft, which happened on Sunday, June 14th 2020 Via (18) Turkish plane heading towards( Sinjar – drunken – El Quir- Erbil )Down to the Sherqat spend deeply 193 Km of the Turkish border inside Iraqi airspace, and there was bombing near areas near Makhmur and Sinjar.
Security Media Cell???????? (@SecMedCell) June 15, 2020
In Baghdad, they described this as a “violation of common interests” and “undermining good neighborly relations”. Total was applied about 30 airstrikes in Mahmur counties, Sinjar, Tooth, Hakurk and Kandil.
American Bloomberg called the Eagle Claw and massive airstrikes "a demonstration of the military power of the Turkish Air Force"
Against the background of the beginning of a new operation, Turkey was recalled 1800 local deaths as a result of 513 incidents in Iraq and Syria with 2015 of the year.
As Turkey resumes attacks on alleged PKK sites in northern Iraq, a reminder that Airwars has tracked as many as 1,800 locally alleged civilian deaths from Turkish actions in both Syria and Iraq since 2015, resulting from 513 incidents. https://t.co/8uArWt6xyR pic.twitter.com/crTLgDCriV
- Airwars (@airwars) June 15, 2020
In social networks, they remembered the periodically used hashtag #TurkeyIsBombingTheKurds ("Turkey bombards the Kurds") and called on the world community to “put an end to barbarism”.
It is our urgent call to the whole world:
TURKEY kills Kurdish civilians by defining them as terrorists at every opportunity
Turkish barbarians; It is necessary to put an end to the barbarism it has done in Libya, Syria Iraq Mediterranean and Aegean sea.#TurkeyIsBombingTheKurds— Coalition (@CoalitionJesus) June 15, 2020
Some decided to remember, that in the ranks of the “Kurdish separatists in Iraq”, as the "Kurdistan Workers Party" is called by the Western media, supporters of "Antifa" are fighting and strikes against them. From the point of view of the western community, in the wake of #BlackLivesMatter is a worthy “excuse”.
The #TurkishArmy is shooting #AntifaTerrorists (#YPG, #PKK and #Daesh) #terrorist camps in #Iraq from the air.
Even in #Corona,#Turkey continues to resolutely fight against #terrorism.
Importance:
There is no #civilian settlement in the bombed areas, only all are #ANTIFA camps.- Otrane???????? (@ Ortane35) June 15, 2020
Someone remembered a visit Mazluma Abdi, commander of the Syrian Democratic Forces in Iraqi Sulaymaniyah to meet with Lahur Talabani, where did Abdi and Talabani go to Baghdad - observers say, operation could be coordinated.
Last week, Mazlum Kobani (YPG) reportedly visited Sulaimani and met with Lahur Talabani (PUK) after which they went to Baghdad.
Apparently, Turkey’s actions are in full knowledge of YPG, PUK and Iraq.https://t.co/b1UqO3NPWc- Dilpak (@ AlMaidan5) June 15, 2020
The British publication Al-Arab al-Jadid linked the start of the campaign against the PKK in Iraqi Kurdistan with the surfaced facts of financing "Kurdish terrorists" by the United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi has been accused of financing "anti-Turkish groups" in Iraq for several months. The authorities of Iraqi Kurdistan imposed a ban on any cash transactions from the UAE to the accounts of residents of Iraqi Kurdistan for amounts over one thousand dollars.
"Antiterror" in Turkish
Statements of, that Turkey acts against the "Kurdistan Workers Party", in Iraq ridiculed: Turkish aviation strikes in the mountains of Sinjar and Mahmur, where are the refugee and internally displaced persons camps.
Blows to the mountains of Sinjar:
#Turkey #Iraq
The Turkish army launched a military operation last night on” Iraq's Kurdistan region” Including Sinjar, against the PKK militia, and the bombing of their positions continued throughout the night, killing several PKK militiamen. pic.twitter.com/c26NeozxDY- OGN Arabic (@OGNArabic) June 15, 2020
Refugee Camp Strikes:
Turkey ???????? Mount Sinjar is bombed in northern Iraq ???????? More than 30 Listen to the screams of children in the displacement camps ... # Eagle-Paw pic.twitter.com/TOpHot6NbI
- Iraqii (@sumeri129) June 15, 2020
Local sources claim, that civilians suffered in Sinjar. Iraqi media accuse Turkey of Yazidi genocide, and the purpose of the operation is called to prevent the return of refugees to their places of residence:
A little while ago I was on a channel” Today” To talk about the bombing of Turkey on # Sinjar, and stressed that the most important reasons for Turkey's bombing of these areas are to prevent the return of the Yazid IDPs to their lands and achieve the goal of ISIS, which is to end the presence of the Yazidis in Iraq, Syria and Turkey . pic.twitter.com/2g3b6h7ahw
- issawaado || Issa Saado (@ issa_s7) June 15, 2020
If you turn to history and remember, when Turkey first hit Sinjar, it becomes clear, it does not fit in with the fight against terrorism. During the Yezidi genocide and the capture of Sinjar by terrorists of the “Islamic State1 of Iraq and the Levant” (group banned in Russia) Turkey did not conduct any operations in the district - for the first time airstrikes were delivered only in April 2017 of the year, when the Peshmerga detachments were in Sinjar.
The start of Operation Eagle Claw and the massive use of the Turkish Air Force in a limited theater of operations coincided surprisingly with a "show of force" on another continent - last week Ankara conducted exercises off the coast of Libya.
Since Operation Claw lasted over a year, during which the Turkish Air Force and special forces melancholyly reported on the elimination of the next "PKK terrorists", the grandiose start of the “Eagle Claw” marked a loud “restart” of the Iraqi epic of Ankara and reminded the allies and opponents of the capabilities of the Turkish military industry.
The real results of using such a quantity of aircraft for obscure objects remain behind the scenes.
1 Organization banned in Russia.
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