Both Israel’s Debkafile and India eNews are reporting that Turkey has launched bombing attacks against Kurdish militant outposts in Southeastern Turkey and Northern Iraq, and that 50,000 troops are involved in in the operation to root out Kurdish militant strongholds, based on an article issued by the Turkish mews agency, Cihan:
Ankara, June 6 (RIA Novosti) The Turkish army has mounted a massive military operation against Kurdish separatists in the southeast of the country, local media reported Wednesday.
According to the Turkish Cihan news agency, the operation, involving about 50,000 troops, armoured vehicles and combat aircraft, is targeting Kurdish militants in 11 provinces in southeast Turkey and northern Iraq.
‘Three F-16 Falcon fighter-bombers…have carried out bombing raids on militant positions of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in northern Iraq,’ the agency said.
Observers are not ruling out the possibility that the current operation will precede a full-scale invasion into northern Iraq, where up to 3,500 PKK separatists, poised to commit terrorist attacks in Turkey, are reportedly based.
Stay tuned. Turkey has just put war with the Kurds on the front burner.
