Turkey Launches Anti-Kurdish Raids into Northern Iraq
Submitted on October 25, 2011
By I.K. Karlsson - 25 October 2011
At least 24 Turkish soldiers were killed on Wednesday, in an attack by Kurdish militants of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in Hakkari province of eastern Turkey, near the Iraq border...Hours after the raid...Turkey’s government and military responded with an incursion of 22 army battalions, bombers and helicopter gunships, and drones against the PKK in five different areas on either side of the border.
