Posted on 01/13/2024 12:34:47 PM PST by FarCenter
Turkish warplanes carried out airstrikes on PKK sites in northern Iraq and Syria early Saturday and destroyed 29 PKK terror targets, the Turkish National Defense Ministry said.
Air operations were carried out against terror targets in the Metina, Hakurk, Gara and Qandil regions in Iraq and northern Syria, in line with the rights to self-defense arising from Article 51 of the U.N. Charter, the ministry said in a statement.
The operations came after nine Turkish soldiers were killed in a PKK terror attack in northern Iraq.
The National Defense Ministry announced a military operation was under way in the area in response in a statement posted on X.
"Twenty-nine terrorist targets, including oil facilities, shelters, caves, and bunkers utilized by the PKK, including senior terrorists, were destroyed," said the statement.
Genocide!
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From the strait to the sea, Turkey shall be free!
Why were Turkish soldiers in Iraq?
Free Anatolia for the indigenous Greeks!
Send the settler colonial Turkmen back to Turkmenistan!
Turks are a tribe without a nation. They live in northern Iraq, Syria, and eastern Turkey. Parts of Iran too. As a tribe they as a people predate the establishment of these nation states. They just never got one of their own.
All Turkish media is 100% pure propaganda.
Without our presence the area and Erdogan senses weakness from O’Biden he will do whatever he wants.
PKK has not provoked Turkey. Turkey makes deals with Assad.
One day, the Kemalists might remove him. So far not happening.
Yes, Erdogan supports Hamas and Hezbollah terrorists.
But these were Turkish troops, not some wandering ethnicity.
The definition of terrorist seems murky to me.
Maybe I should just get some adult coloring books…
They have Turkmenistan.
They are muslim invaders in Greek Anatolia.
“In the early Middle ages, Turkmens called themselves Oghuz and in the Middle Ages they took the ethnonym Turkmen.[18] These early Oghuz Turkmens moved westward from the Altai Mountains through the Siberian steppes, and settled in the region now known as Turkmenistan. Further westward migration of the Turkmen tribes from the territory of modern Turkmenistan and the rest of Central Asia started from the 11th century and continued until the 18th century. These Turkmen tribes played a significant role in the ethnic formation of such peoples as Anatolian Turks”
I totally misread your post. I thought you asked why Kurdish troops were in Iraq. Turkish, ostensibly because they were part of the alliance and as being part of NATO but I’m sure they had their own expansionist and economic and other assorted interests.
The Turks came from parts East, in several waves: first the Seljuk Empire, then the various emirates that ended up being incorporated into the Ottoman Empire.There were two stages in the Turkification of Anatolia: 1071 (Battle of Manzikert) through ca. 1300, and 1300 through ca. 1500.
In the first stage, there was conquest, massacres, migration, economic disruption, and forced conversions. Yet in 1300, there were still enough Christians in the emirates in Anatolia, that the capital tax on Christians was their largest source of revenue.
The population of Christians in Western Anatolia plummeted over the next two centuries, so that by the early 16th century the proportion of Christian to Muslim households in the Anatolia Eyalet was 8000 to 520,000. (In the Rûm Eyalet by contrast, which had remained under Christian control up to 1461, Christian households were still 30%.)
The population of Christians plummeted, of course, because Greek-speaking Christians became Turkish-speaking Muslims. Greek clergy continually refer to their flock dwindling, and to Christians converting. The number of bishoprics in Anatolia dwindled from 54 to 17, with depopulated sees merged into their neighbours.
Not only was the Greek church much less empowered to retain the allegiance of Christians, with its property confiscated and its prestige diminished, but there was significant Islamic missionary activity as well (the Bektashi Order, the Mevlevi Order, the Futuwwa).
That makes more sense. :)
I think Turkey has gone into Northern Iraq numerous times over the years.
Taking out Saddam just made Iran stronger.
Taking out Kadaffi just created anarchy and got tens of thousands killed.
There seems no endgame aside from perpetuating war and instability in the region.
Turks are masters of genocide.
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