Turkey, Iran bombard Kurdish rebels in Iraq: PKK

[Joanne98]

Source: AFP

QANDIL, Iraq (AFP) — Turkish warplanes and Iranian artillery bombarded Kurdish rebel hideouts in northern Iraq on Monday, a Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) spokesman said.

"Turkish planes and Iranian artillery bombarded Aquwan and the Iranians bombarded Maradu. The bombardment lasted for about one hour starting from 7pm (1600 GMT)," the spokesman, Ahmed Denis, told AFP.

The spokesman had no immediate word on any casualties.

The fresh bombardment of the remote mountains where the borders of Iraq, Iran and Turkey meet follows talks in Ankara on December 24 between Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Iraqi counterpart Nuri al-Maliki.

In those talks, the two governments agreed to step up cooperation against PKK rebels operating rear-bases in northern Iraq.



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THIS HAS TO STOP TOO!

[Idealism]

1. The Kurds have been kicked around like the Palestinians

Albeit for not as long

[Joanne98]

2. Exactly!

[underpants]

3. The Kurds have never had an effective PR department like the Palestinians

but both are in the same socio-economic boat in the Arab and Persian worlds.

Want to know how the Kurds got those Soviet made tanks from Saddam's forces?
They climbed up on them and pulled the former owners out. Losing a tank was NOT the worst thing that happened to the crew that day. :scared:

Fierce and relentless fighters. They have had to be, no one will give them a nation never have and they especially won't now that the Kurds have access to OIL in their land.

I think the Kurds have been around as long as the Palestinians. :shrug:

[Idealism]

4. They were left relatively in peace compared to other sects in that region