{"id":3719,"date":"2018-06-12T09:00:52","date_gmt":"2018-06-12T09:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=3719"},"modified":"2018-06-12T09:00:52","modified_gmt":"2018-06-12T09:00:52","slug":"turkish-army-launches-qandil-operation-to-destroy-pkk-hq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/06\/12\/turkish-army-launches-qandil-operation-to-destroy-pkk-hq\/","title":{"rendered":"TURKISH ARMY LAUNCHES QANDIL OPERATION TO DESTROY PKK HQ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/09\/xlarge_TURKISH_ARMY.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-86\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/09\/xlarge_TURKISH_ARMY.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/09\/xlarge_TURKISH_ARMY.jpg 900w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/09\/xlarge_TURKISH_ARMY-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/09\/xlarge_TURKISH_ARMY-560x311.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/09\/xlarge_TURKISH_ARMY-260x144.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/09\/xlarge_TURKISH_ARMY-160x89.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: Daily Sabah<\/p>\n<p>Turkey launched an operation in the Qandil mountains in northern Iraq on Monday to clear PKK terrorists in the area and eradicate the leadership of the terrorist organization.<\/p>\n<p>President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan announced the operation during his rally in the central Anatolian province of Ni\u011fde, saying the main aim was to drain the terrorist group&#8217;s swamps in the area.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve launched our operation in Qandil\u2026 with 20 of our airplanes, we&#8217;ve destroyed 14 targets so far,&#8221; the president said. The Qandil mountains, located roughly 40 kilometers southeast of the Turkish border in Iraq&#8217;s Irbil province, are being used as the headquarters of PKK and its Iranian affiliate, the Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK), although the area is under de jure control of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG).<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: https:\/\/www.dailysabah.com\/war-on-terror\/2018\/06\/12\/turkish-military-launches-qandil-operation-to-destroy-pkk-headquarters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Daily Sabah Turkey launched an operation in the Qandil mountains in northern Iraq on Monday to clear PKK terrorists in the area and eradicate the leadership of the terrorist organization. President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan announced the operation during his rally in the central Anatolian province of Ni\u011fde, saying the main aim was to drain&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/06\/12\/turkish-army-launches-qandil-operation-to-destroy-pkk-hq\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">TURKISH ARMY LAUNCHES QANDIL OPERATION TO DESTROY PKK HQ<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":86,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conflict","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3720,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3719\/revisions\/3720"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}