AFTER ALL TURKEY LAUNCHED MILITARY OPERATION NEAR NORTHERN BORDERS OF IRAQ

PanARMENIAN.Net
11.06.2007 13:24 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Already for several days Turkish army carries out a
military operation aimed at neutralizing Kurdish militants in Turkish
provinces, which border northern Iraq. The operation is being carried
out in 11 provinces. More that 50 000 soldiers are involved in it
with the support of armored cars, helicopters and air forces. Air
and artillery strike targets not only on Turkish territory, but also
on contiguous lands of Iraq, where too Kurdish separatists are based
on. Kurdish sources assure that in the result of bombardments three
Kurdish villages in northern Iraq have burnt down.

The large-scale military operation was launched as a response to the
firing of a Turkish roadblock in eastern Tunceli province by Kurdish
militiamen, in the result of which 8 Turkish soldiers were killed
and 6 wounded.

Iraqi President Jalal Talabani stated that official Baghdad will view
the operation of the Turkish army in the north of Iraq as an aggression
towards his country. In her part U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza
Rice called on Ankara to cease bombardment of Iraqi territories, since
it "will not be of benefit to both countries", RIA "Novosti" reports.