A Turkish army base came under rocket fire in northern Iraq on Friday, according to SHAFAQ News, citing local security sources.
According to its data, the incident happened in the morning near the village of Amedi, located 15 kilometers from the border with Turkey in the province of Duhok. Two rockets were launched at the site where Turkish troops are stationed. One of the rockets hit the military equipment, but there was no information about any casualties among the troops.
In the night of April 18, the Turkish Armed Forces launched a new military operation against the members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in the north of Iraq, involving the country's air force and special forces units. National Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said that the goals set during the first stage of the operation had been achieved. He added that the only goal of the Turkish military was to eliminate terrorists. The Iraqi Foreign Ministry called Ankara's actions "unacceptable and undermining the sovereignty" of the Arab republic.
Ankara considers the PKK a terrorist organization and one of the main threats to national security. Turkish Armed Forces periodically target sites in Iraq, where the organization has camps, hideouts, command posts and weapons caches. The military is sanctioned for such cross-border operations by the parliament, which has been renewing the relevant mandate for a period of one year over the past years. Baghdad has consistently condemned the actions of the Turkish military, calling them a violation of Iraq's sovereignty.
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