MESOP : US SPECIAL FORCES QUITE NEAR TO PKK FORCES / JOINT COORDINATION Turkey Bombed PKK Positions Near US Special Forces – US military ‘outraged’ by move
Basnews – Luke Coleman 11.08.2015 17:04 – WASHINGTON – A US military source has told Fox News that the Turkish military gave only 10 minutes’ notice that it was going to bomb nearby Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) positions on 24th July.The huge bombing mission endangered US Special Forces training Peshmerga in the area. The unnamed source said, “A Turkish officer came into the CAOC [Combined Air and Space Operations Center], and announced that the strike would begin in 10 minutes and he needed all allied jets flying above Iraq to move south of Mosul immediately. We were outraged.“
We had US Special Forces not far from where the Turks were bombing, training Kurdish Peshmerga fighters.”The incident prompted anger between the allies, with the US insisting on more detailed and earlier information from Turkey, while refusing to provide information on the whereabouts of its personnel.