MESOP NEWS : FIGHTING JOINTLY AGAINST PKK
Turkey, Iraq discuss possibility of joint anti-PKK struggle: Turkish PM
ANKARA – 9 March 2018 – Hurriyet – Turkey and Iraq are in close talks for a potential joint struggle against the presence of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in Iraqi territories, the prime minister has said, a day after Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu announced that Iraq was the Turkish military’s next target after the ongoing Afrin operation.
“[Cross-border] operations will be conducted in northern Iraq when necessary. We are in close contact with the Iraqi government on this,” Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım told reporters on March 9. More via www.mesop.de