“Operation Claw Lock” is definitely a better name than the gay ones the US uses for its invasions
It might just be that when all is said and done, Turkey ends up in control of the whole world.
They’re the only country which is successfully able to play every single other country off against each other.
It’s really shocking what they’re able to get away with.
Turkey has launched a new ground and air offensive against Kurdish militants in Iraq, Turkey’s defence minister announced Monday.
Turkish warplanes, artillery and troops attacked targets belonging to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in northern Iraq, ranging from camps to ammunition stores.
The military operation – named “Operation Claw Lock” – was part of a long-running Turkish campaign in Iraq and Syria against militants of the PKK and Syrian Kurdish YPG, which Ankara regards as terrorist groups.
Jets and artillery struck shelters, bunkers, caves, tunnels, ammunition depots and headquarters belonging to the PKK, said Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar in a video posted on the ministry’s website early Monday.
Turkish commandos – with the support of helicopters and drones – then crossed into the area by land or were flown in by helicopters.
“Our operation is continuing successfully as planned,” the state-owned Anadolu news agency quoted Akar as saying. “The targets identified in the first phase have been captured.”
Diversity – not a great strength in Turkey either
No information on casualties was given or how many troops and warplanes participated in the action.
Turkey has conducted numerous cross-border aerial and ground operations against the PKK over the past decades, with the latest offensive taking place in the regions of Metina, Zap and Avashin-Basyan.
Turkey claims the PKK bases in northern Iraq are used to stage attacks on Turkish soil and launched Monday’s operation following an assessment that the PKK was planning a large-scale attack, the ministry added.
The PKK, which has also been designated a terrorist organisation by the US and the European Union, took up arms against the Turkish state in 1984. More than 40,000 people have been killed in the conflict, which in the past was mainly focused in southeast Turkey.
So Turkey is in NATO, but also at war with the US in Syria.
They are also alternatively allied with Russia and Israel, depending on the situation, and have never lost any battle with the EU. Who knows what they are doing with the Gulf States, but there is some kind of game there as well. They stabbed Saudi over the Khashoggi killing, providing evidence to the West that Saudi did it, and they are somehow involved with Qatar. They don’t seem to have terrible relations with Iran even.
Erdogan has made no mystery of the fact that he seeks to reestablish some kind of serious regional dominance, and yet, somehow, even as Turkey makes all of these serious moves, they are never the center of the conversation.
Nothing says greatest strength like importing tribal wars from the Middle East