Turkey, Iran Coordinating Iraq Attacks

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Turkey, Iran Coordinating Iraq Attacks
June 05, 2008
Deutsche Presse-Agentur

ANKARA - Turkey's army chief on June 5 said that Turkey and Iran were coordinating raids on the northern Iraq-based Kurdish separatists, NTV television reported.

"With Iran we made coordinated attacks. If necessary we will do it again. We are sharing intelligence with Iran," General Ilker Basbug told reporters in Ankara.

Basbug said the two countries had launched simultaneous attacks on the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) and their allies, the Party of Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK), from within their respective borders. He said the attacks took place more than one to two months ago.

The general's comments come after attacks by both Iraq and Turkey on PKK positions in northern Iraq in recent months.

In February, the Turkish army launched a week-long cross-border incursion into northern Iraq in a bid to destroy PKK camps. According to the Turkish military, 240 PKK fighters, 24 Turkish soldiers and three village guards employed by Turkey were killed in operation.


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[Botany]

1. "It" keeps getting better and better

Iraq has been a blunder of historic proportions