August 3, 2020
What Is Turkey Doing in Northern Iraq?
The scope of Turkey’s exertion in the region will be greatly determined by how Ankara handles Moscow and Washington.
by Ali Demirdas
Over the summer, the Turkish Air Force conducted one of its largest air campaigns in recent years against the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), a State Department-designated terror organization. Operation Claw-Eagle, which began in mid-June, struck more than eighty targets that spanned from Iraq’s Syria border to Iran border, some two hundred miles in the east-west direction. The Turkish Armed Forces said it launched the campaign due to “the increased PKK attacks on Turkey’s observation points in North Iraq.†However, the military operation should be seen as a part of Turkey’s current wider Middle East and the Mediterranean policies also signaling the level of Turkey’s military and intelligence readiness to conduct those policies.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/middle-east-watch/what-turkey-doing-northern-iraq-166201
