49 Killed So Far In Turkey’s Invasion Of Iraq
Abril, Feb 23, (VOI) – Five Turkish soldiers and 44 fighters of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) were killed in a ground attack waged by the army in northern Iraq, the Turkish army revealed in a statement.
“Five Turkish soldiers and 44 PKK fighters were killed during operations targeting the PKK strongholds at the end of Feb. 22,” according to the Turkish army statement published on its web site late on Friday.
On Friday a PKK source said a field combat erupted between Turkish troops and PKK fighters in the border area of Bazia, which came under air attacks by Turkish warplanes.
“Two Turkish soldiers were killed and eight others wounded in the combat that broke out on Thursday after 10,000 Turkish soldiers advanced under air cover to strike PKK positions,” Ahmed Deniz, the PKK’s foreign relations official, told Aswat al-Iraq – Voices of Iraq – (VOI).
The Turkish army staff had announced on its official website that the Turkish forces waged an attack across the Iraqi borders on Thursday evening with air backing and would return to their bases as soon as possible after attaining their objectives.
A high-level official in the Kurdish border forces of the Peshmerga, however, told VOI “operations are now going on inside the Turkish borders,” denying any advancing into Iraqi borders.
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Maybe we could outsource the Turkish Army to patrol our southern border.
February 23rd, 2008 at 1:43 pm