Turkish forces are seen at Mount Barsaya in northeast of Afrin, January 28, 2018 / Khalil Ashawi / Reuters
On April 22, the Turkish Ministry of National Defense announced that three soldiers were killed while taking part in Operation Claw-Lock in northern Iraq.
Turkey launched the operation on April 17 to neutralize the remnants of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in the areas of Metina, Zap and Avashin Basyan in the Kurdistan Region.
In a statement, the Ministry of National Defense said that the three soldiers were killed as a result of a “terror attack” without elaborating. The ministry also claimed that six members of the PKK were “neutralized” in an air-supported raid within the Operation Claw-Lock zone.
Iraqi sources reported a rocket attack on the Turkish military’s Siri base to the north of Duhok city in the Kurdistan Region. The sources said that Turkish military vehicles were hit. However, they didn’t report any casualties.
Turkey claims that at least 45 members of the PKK have been killed, wounded or captured since the beginning of Operation Claw-Lock.
While Ankara has so far acknowledged the death of three soldiers only, the PKK alleges that up to seven Turkish service members were killed while taking part in the operation.
The Turkish oepration led to tensions with Iraq. The Iraqi President Barham Salih condemned the attack and demanded Turkey to end the operation deeming it a “threat to our national security”.
Iraq’s Foreign Minister, Fuad Hussein, alleged the operation was a violation of Iraq’s sovereignty, while Muqtada al-Sadr, the leader of the largest faction in parliament demanded that if Turkey has security concerns, it should discuss them with the Iraqi Government and considered its military strong enough to take care of the issue.
Erdogan claimed to have the agreement of both the Kurdistan Region Government and Iraq during a speech in the Turkish Parliament on April 20. This was denied by Iraqi officials. On April 22, the Iraqi envoy to Turkey was summoned to convey Turkeys displeasure with “unfounded allegations” after Erdogan’s speech in the parliament.
Operation Claw-Lock is the most recent in a series of offensives Turkey has carried out since 2019 against what it calls “terrorist organizations” in northern Iraq, particularly the PKK.
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So a NATO member carries out “operations” within the country that the US and NATO “liberated” from Saddam. And here I thought the US supported the Kurds (as much as the US supports anybody without betraying them). Meanwhile, over in Syria, the Kurds and Turks have each grabbed a section and fight against one another there. Then there are the oil fields in SE Syria that the US illegally occupies…I mean there are ZERO resolutions of the UN on that and the Syrian government didn’t say “come on in”…so the US just steals part of that country, with support from US military left in Iraq, which “go to top of comment”.
This is a fight between secularism and Islamism not between Turkey and the Kurds.
Secularist Turks, secularist Kurds, secularist Syrians and secularist Iraqis support SDF.
Islamist Turks, islamist Kurds, islamist Syrians and islamist Iraqis support Erdogan.
This is the true grasp of the obvious …
Conclusion is: islam is a shitty/criminal idology, similar to nazi ideology…it is not something that CIA invented like some dumb people likes to believe , because 1400 years ago, there was no CIA but jihadism in the muslim world…
CIA created ISIS in fact. Islam is different.
3 down. 100 million to go. Crank it up
Russia needs to learn from Karabakh War: Azerbaijan advanced and took lots of land in such a short time with help of dozens of Bayraktar drones to target fortified enemies in trenches. If Russia had similar drones in large quantity they would be advancing much faster in Donbass now as well since UKROPS have lots of trenches. Drones are the future of modern warfare especially against entrenched enemies. But when you combine them with artillery, mortars and regular air support it’s even better. Russia needs to start cranking out Orion drones by the hundreds.
Not really, azerbaijan advanced only a couple of kilometres. Well within range of these drones. That doesn’t work in the Ukraine, it’s 1000 times bigger.
Additionally, azerbaijan was fighting against some Armenian reservists with meaningless weapons. Russia is fighting a proxy-war against NATO against top of the line NATO weapons and NATO-officers. Amazingly enough, Russia is keeping up to a certain degree. Quite an accomplishment
Nato would wipe out Azerbaijan and it’s pimp Turkey in a day without breaking a sweat. These Bayraktar drones are meaningless. it’s the infantry teams with Javelin’s, ATGM’s, Stingers and such. Guided by ELINT aircraft all across the border.
LOL western “think tank” retards saying Russia cannot produce their own precision weapons or missiles anymore because they are sanctioned and cut off from the world.
Meanwhile Iran (who is much poorer, smaller, less advanced than Russia) is also cut off from the world and heavily sanctioned, and have the largest rocket/drone/cruise missile arsenal. Made their own advanced air defense systems (sayad-4, bavar-373), working on long range missiles.
Fucking retarded NATO shills haha
Don’t get too excited think your poor heart you might have a heart attack..
People should start seeing between words. The democrat Salih condemns the operation. Democracy = Pharisaism = hypocrisy The fascist Sadr supports the Turkish military, which is a combination of Muslim Brotherhood and Grey Wolves. Fascism = Zealotism = terrorism They are both wrong. Which is the correct view? The correct view is the one that tells the truth. And the truth is that organizations like PKK exist because of mismanagement of all these states there.
hahaha Turks get what they deserve Love PKK