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BBC Eye investigates Turkey’s military expansion in northern Iraq in Turkey’s Hidden War – The Forbidden Zone
BBC World Service investigation reveals Turkey’s military expansion in northern Iraq, where a vast area is known to locals as ...
Life inside Iraq's 'Forbidden Zone' controlled by Turkey
The Forbidden Zone spans almost the entire length of the Iraqi border with Turkey and is up to 40km (25 miles) deep in places ...
Turkey's regional ambitions can only be stopped by building a Kurdish nation - opinion
Turkey’s entire political spectrum – from the far Left to the far Right is united around the idea of territorial expansion ...
Kurdish PKK ends 40-year Turkey insurgency, bringing hope of regional stability
The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group, which has been locked in bloody conflict with Turkey for more than four ...
Key dates in the PKK's decades-long armed struggle against Turkey
A military coup in Turkey forces much of the PKK to flee to neighboring countries such as Syria and Lebanon, where the ...
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Turkey and Iraq reaffirm commitment to work against Kurdish militants and other security threats
ANKARA, Turkey — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani reaffirmed their commitment to strengthening security cooperation on Thursday, vowing to ...
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BBC Eye investigates Turkey’s military expansion in northern Iraq in Turkey’s Hidden War – The Forbidden Zone
reveals the story of Turkey’s military expansion in northern Iraq. For decades, Turkey has fought to root out the PKK – a Kurdish organisation banned as a terrorist group in Turkey ...
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Turkey and Iraq reaffirm commitment to work against Kurdish militants and other security threats
Relations between Turkey and Iraq were often strained over Turkish military incursions into northern Iraq for operations against the banned Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, and the ...