TURKEY (VOP TODAY NEWS) – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan reported on an attack in Sinjar to eliminate terrorist groups in northern Iraq.
“Sinjar is an alternative to Qandil, so in order to fight terrorist groups in northern Iraq, it is possible that one day we would suddenly make an attack,” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said.
According to IRNA, the Turkish government has repeatedly claimed that members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party of Turkey (PKK) were present in the mountains of Qandil and Sinjar in northern Iraq, and that in recent years especially during the past two weeks, he had conducted several air and ground strikes against the group’s positions in Sinjar.
“The operations will continue until Sinjar’s total clean-up of the presence of PKK elements,” Erdogan said on Friday.
“However, the fight to end the activities of terrorist groups on Iraqi soil is a task we have in common with the Baghdad government. If the Iraqis want it, we are ready to cooperate with them on this,” he said.
“We are ready to clean the localities of Ain al-Arab, Tal Abyad, Rassoulin and Hassaka from the presence of terrorists,” he added, referring to Turkish army operations in the north of Syria.
“In coordination with the intelligence services of Kosovo, the Turkish intelligence services have captured six members of the Gülen movement,” he continued, referring to Turkey’s efforts to extradite elements of the Gülen movement. in Turkey.
Erdogan also described as ridiculous France’s proposal to intervene between Ankara and terrorist groups. “You can go to the negotiating table with the terrorists, but Turkey will continue to fight these groups as it did in Afrin,” he said.
“Who are you to propose your mediation between Turkey and a terrorist group? He told Emmanuel Macron, French president.
