Comprises authoritative, up-to-date content - each entry ranging from 1,000 to 6,000 words - written by the best international scholars.Creates an affordable and handy personal reference for students of modern and contemporary history, professional scholars, and military history enthusiasts.Covers topics including chemical warfare, ethnic cleansing, psychological warfare, and women and war.Features detailed coverage of the First and Second World Wars, along with conflicts including the Russo-Japanese War, the Greco-Turkish War, the Falklands Conflict, the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan, the Gulf Wars, the War Against Terrorism, and the Somalian Civil War.Incorporates entries on all major wars, conflicts and concepts in the study of warfare during the period.Provides essential coverage of twentieth-century warfare across the world.Iran’s ambassador warned in February that Turkish forces should not pose a threat or violate Iraqi soil, prompting Ankara and Tehran to each summon the other’s ambassador.Ĭlashes between the Turkish army and Kurdish fighters are believed to have killed tens of thousands of people since 1984.Drawn from the award-winning 5-volume Encyclopedia of War, this valuable, one-volume reference provides readers with essential information on the conflicts and concepts that shaped global warfare in the twentieth-century and up to the present day. The February raid also created problems in Turkey’s relations with Iran, which now has a strong political and military presence in Iraq, and which treats Erdogan’s regional campaigns with suspicion. Turkey accused the PKK of executing the 13 men before they could be freed, and Erdogan came under attack from opposition parties in parliament. That raid created controversy because it was designed in part to rescue 12 Turkish soldiers and an Iraqi held captive by the PKK in a cave. ![]() In February, Turkey launched the Claw-Eagle 2 operation against PKK rebels holed up in the northern Iraqi region of Dohuk. “We will keep on fighting until we eradicate these gangs of murderers who cause nothing but tears and destruction.” “There’s no room for the separatist terror group in the future of Turkey, Iraq or Syria,” Erdogan said in reference to the Kurdish fighters. Speaking to the command centre by video link, Erdogan said the offensive was designed “to completely end the presence of the terror threat … along our southern borders”. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan dubbed the latest offensive Operation Claw-Lightning. The Turkish army regularly conducts cross-border operations and air attacks against PKK bases in northern Iraq. The PKK, listed as a “terrorist group” by Turkey and much of the international community, has been using Iraq’s northern mountains as a springboard in its decades-long rebellion against the Turkish state. In a televised speech, Defence Minister Hulusi Akar said the operation began on Friday and involved special forces backed by drones and attack helicopters. Turkish television showed images of paratroopers jumping from helicopters and camouflaged soldiers firing assault weapons. “Heroic commandos of the heroic Turkish Armed Forces are in northern Iraq,” the ministry said in a tweet, without specifying how many soldiers were involved in the operation. ![]() Turkey’s army hit Kurdish fighters in northern Iraq in a new ground-and-air offensive.Ĭommando forces landed in Iraq’s Metina region from helicopters while fighter jets bombed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) targets, the defence ministry said on Sunday.
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