Turkey to reinforce military bases in N.Iraq after 12 soldiers killed

Turkey to reinforce military bases in Iraq after 12 soldiers were killed. Following the deaths of twelve Turkish troops in the region, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday that Turkey will strengthen its recently created permanent outposts in northern Iraq over the next few months.

In the last week, twelve people were murdered in northern Iraq as a result of battles with militants of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which is a banned organization.

In the past few years, we have constructed highways in northern Iraq that are hundreds of kilometers long to accommodate our permanent bases. At a meeting that was broadcast on television in Ankara, Erdogan stated, “We carry out the same activities in new places that we have controlled.”

“By the arrival of spring, we will have completed the infrastructure of our newly established bases (in northern Iraq) and make terrorists unable to set foot in the region.”

The onslaught that Turkey is conducting against PKK militants includes frequent strikes carried out by the Turkish military in Iraq, which is a neighboring nation. After Erdogan announced “a new security concept in combating terrorism” and a strategy to “neutralize terrorism and terrorists at source,” Turkey has begun a series of operations in northern Iraq since 2019. These operations have been ongoing since 2019.

Turkey, the United States of America, and the European Union have all labeled the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) as a terrorist organization. The PKK strives for more Kurdish rights and maintains significant fortifications in the northern region of Iraq. Since 1984, when it began its campaign of violence against the Turkish state, it has carried out several assaults in Turkey that have resulted in fatalities.