Last week, there were three issues on Türkiye’s agenda: Statements signaling a military operation against terrorist organization in northern Iraq, an unstoppable rise in foreign exchange rates and the meeting between President Erdoğan and his Ukrainian counterpart Zelensky. Statements indicating a military operation into Northern Iraq The first message regarding a large-scale military operation targeting PKK targets in northern Iraq ...
By Fikret Akfirat On the night of April 17, Turkey launched the Claw-Lock operation against the US-backed PKK forces in northern Iraq. With this step, a new phase has been started in the “Claw” series of operations. The Turkish Armed Forces are famous for giving meaningful names to their military operations. Operations started with Claw-1 targeting the removal of PKK camps in the ...