TR Military Operations in Northern Iraq

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The operations are continuing and there is not so much to report. We have the routine activities and airstrikes.

An important development is the targeting of 2 vehicle PKK convoy in the vicinity of Suleymaniye. According to the initial information we got, there are 2 dead and more wounded.

It was thought that pro-PKK media was going to conduct an interview with a high ranking PKK target. In result an operation against the predetermined targets was launched.

One vehicle was hit on the spot, killing the journalists Hero Bahadin and Gulistan Tara on the spot, heavily injuring a journalist named as Rebin. According to the information we got, there are 6 more injured. The killed journalists were reporters for Sterk TV, ANF and Roj TV (pro-PKK media). There was a second vehicle which miraculously was not directly hit.

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It is important to note that brothers of Gulistan Tara were the DEM Party Batman provincial chairman M. Mesut Tekik and former deputy mayor A. Bulent Tekik. Bulent Tekik was expelled from the municipality by a statutory decree in 2017.
 

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Gotta say, i was actually surprised this didn't make worldwide news. Missing the other car is not good optics. hoping for the next time.
 

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11 more cockroaches were squashed.
 

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Another Turkish UAV is shot down. I wrote shot down because it has clear shrapnel damage on the wing in the second photo.


According to Iraqi sources, the Armed Forces of Iraq shot down the UAV. The UAV is Aksungur. 4 ground to air missiles are fired to shoot down the Aksungur UAV.

The reason is to sabotage the Turkiye, Iraq, Qatar, and UAE meeting that is happening today in Turkiye. The meeting is about a trade route that will pass through Iraq and Turkiye. Qatar and UAE is willing to provide financial aid for the project. I think the usual suspect is Iranian assets inside the Armed Forces of Iraq.
 
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Another Aksungur down, bringing the number to 3 in the last year. No matter the politics with Iraqi army being fractured and it being strengthened with modern SAMs and aircraft from Korea and France, it is possible we will see similar events repeat in the future.
 

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Another Aksungur down, bringing the number to 3 in the last year. No matter the politics with Iraqi army being fractured and it being strengthened with modern SAMs and aircraft from Korea and France, it is possible we will see similar events repeat in the future.
What is more saddening that the downing itself, is that the whole event affects profile and fame of Turkish UAVs. I can't really accept it calmly when those UAVs are downed by some junk Pantsirs just because those were not the targets.
 

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The Iraqi side confirms that Turkiye informed Iraq about the operations of the Aksungur UAV.

Turkiye should immediately demand that the MoD of Iraq launch a probe and suspend those officers who gave the order. Turkiye should inform Iraq MoD that the next hostility will result in Turkish forces hitting the hostile forces unless they comply with this request.
 

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