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Turkish Air Force

Iraqi government summoned on Thursday the Turkish ambassador in Baghdad and demanded that the Turkish air force put a stop to the bombings in the northern mountains of Iraq, where Turks have information that the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has its bases. The formal protest was made on Wednesday by Iraqi foreign undersecretary who demanded Turkish ambassador to convey the message to Ankara that Iraq desires the termination of bombings.
The undersecretary complained that the Turkish aviation infringed Iraqi sovereignty, bombed the border areas and targeted innocent civilians. The ambassador received a written protest on this matter from the Iraqi official.
It is said that the Turkish attack last Sunday in the Sulaimaniyah province, in the Kurdistan autonomous region, killed an Iraqi family of seven innocent civilians, according to a Iraqi Kurdish official.
Turkish military said that its air attacks killed 100 Kurdish rebels and injured more than 80, but a spokesman for the Kurdistan Workers’ Party said that only three of its fighters were killed in the attack.
The decision to strike the rebel bases of the PKK was made by the president of Turkey and the Prime Minister as a result of constant attacks of the PKK on Turkish security forces in the last past months.
In June, the electoral commission refused the candidacy of a Kurdish candidate because the man had served time in prison. This provoked an unprecedented violent reaction of the PKK, which broke the ceasefire agreed in February and began staging a series of attacks that killed 40 Turkish security officers.

Space Inhabited By Kurds

The last attack, staged in a southeastern province at the border with Iraq, killed nine officers, compelling the Turkish PM and the president to promise retaliation. After the first round of air strikes the Turkish officials promised they wouldn’t stop until all the bases of the PKK on Iraqi soil have been destroyed.
The Turkish intelligence received the information about the Kurdish bases in the northern Iraqi mountains from the U.S. army in 2008.
Turkey has been fighting the Kurds since 1984, and 45,000 people have lost their lives in these fights.
Kurdish people have consistent communities in all the countries in the region: Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran. Of all these countries, they enjoy autonomous status in Iraq, where at a certain moment there were talks about establishing a Kurdish independent state, but under the pressure of the neighboring countries they had to settle for the presidency of the state, and thus Jalal Talabani, former Kurdish fighter against Saddam Hussein has been president for many years.
There were talks in Iraq about independence even in 2008, but the high autonomy is all they have acquired so far from the war on Saddam. Irbil, the Kurdish capital city in northern Iraq looks very different from the destroyed cities of the rest of the country. The Kurdish flag flies over the buildings and almost nothing shows that it is still Iraq.

On the other hand there are people in both Iraq and Iran that believe in the establishing a state soon. The only state of the Kurds was establish in 1941, and lasted five years, and was established in the Iranian Kurdistan.
There are between 25 to 30 million Kurds living in four states where their status is not recognized as an independent nation.
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