Haberler Turkey can strike at PKK in Iraq
Istanbul - Turkey's armed force has the capability to launch a preserved task from a Kurdish militant base in Iraq as well as believes that the team's members are also obtaining training in Syria and Iran, the head of the armed forces said in an unusual interview.
General Necdet Ozel advised the Turkiye newspaper that a sustained attack on the major base of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in the Qandil mountain region of north Iraq was really feasible however gave no particulars on whether such a task was organized.
Clashes in recent months in between Turkey's armed forces and militants from the PKK - thought of a terrorist association by Ankara, the United States and also European Union - have actually been amongst the heaviest since the group used up arms 28 years ago.
Turkey has stepped up air affairs on suspected PKK rebels in northern Iraq over the last year after a boost in PKK strikes, sustaining stress in between Ankara and the Kurdistan Regional Federal government (KRG).
They are very well guarded and frequently change location. We are functioning to turn them ineffective, Ozel pointed out of the PKK's innovators, utilizing an expression regularly employed by Turkish army officials to explain the hurting of militants.
Asked whether the PKK had camps in Syria as well as Iran, Ozel stated: The horror association has terrorist teams in the nations you mention. Alarmists are educated in these campgrounds.
Ankara has actually connected the rise in PKK physical violence to the unrest in neighbouring Syria as well as Excellent Priest Tayyip Erdogan has accused Syria's Chief of state Bashar al-Assad of arming the PKK militants.
Turkey has raised the option of army interference in Syria if the PKK were to launch strikes from Syrian soil. The military has conducted activities on the Syrian perimeter in a clear caution to Damascus.
In written solutions to concerns from the paper, the general pointed out that the armed forces were getting limited intelligence support from the United States in its affairs.
Ozel stated that 110 soldiers and also 427 PKK militants had actually been killed given that the beginning of the year in clashes that have centred on the delicate southeastern area lining Iran, Iraq and Syria.
Six soldiers were amongst seven people wiped out in a PKK bomb strike on an army vehicle in Tunceli, eastern Turkey, on Tuesday, the most up to date in a series of guerrilla-style attacks on the armed forces. - Reuters
