Turkey launches new cross-border anti-terrorism operation against PKK hideouts in northern Iraq. This was announced on Monday morning by the country's Minister of National Defense Hulusi Akar, Anadolu writes..

The operation, called Claw-Lock ("

In these areas, shelters, ammunition depots, headquarters, gathering places and tunnel networks are being destroyed, Akar said.. PKK members often hide in northern Iraq to plan cross-border attacks in Turkey, Ankara convinced.

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Previous Tiger Claw and Eagle Claw operations began in northern Iraq border areas in 2020. In its more than 35-year campaign against Turkey, the PKK, which has been designated a terrorist organization by Turkey, the US and the European Union, is responsible for the deaths of at least 40,000 people, according to the website of the Turkish agency..

Kurdistan divided between Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria.

Recall that the Kurdistan Workers' Party was formed on November 27, 1978.. as a Marxist-Leninist (Maoist-leaning) underground group. In the first years after its creation, it was marked by a number of actions against Kurdish nationalist parties (“reactionary” from its point of view) and “feudal lords” (representatives of the spiritual and secular traditional Kurdish elites). This gave rise to suspicions that the party was created by the Turkish special services..

After the 1980 coup, the leaders of the party were detained, but some managed to escape to Syria, where they received a kind of guardianship thanks to the protectorate of the Syrian intelligence service Mukhabarrat.

Currently, the territory that the Kurds consider their homeland is divided between four states - Turkey (about 190 thousand people live here).. Kurds), Iran (125 thousand. ), Iraq (65 thousand. ) and Syria (12 thousand)).

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