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Turkey again launched a military operation in Iraqi Kurdistan

Turkey again launched a military operation in Iraqi Kurdistan

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.

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 ”.

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.

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.

"Demonstration of military power"

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.

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.

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”.

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”.

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.

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:

Refugee Camp Strikes:

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:

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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