Above: Kandil mountains, Kurdistan, Northern Iraq, Iran, Turkey Turkey bombed several villages in Northern Iraq yesterday the 16th: Zap, Hakurk and Avasin as well as areas in the Kandil/Qandil (Depends on who you talk to) mountainous region were hit. Apparently striking at the PKK (The Kurdistan workers party). There is an old Kurdish saying, " The Kurds have no friends but the mountains. " The strike lasted 3 hrs and began at 2300 GMT, 0200 local time. Iraq says Ten villages hit and ... Read More

Above: Map during Trablusgarp Savasi In Italy this war between Turkey and Italy was known as Guerra di Libia or The Libyan War and in Turkey as Trablusgarp Savasi. It was a conflict between the Ottoman Turks and Italy. Lasting from 29th September to 18th October it is also known in history as The Tripolitan War. Above: Italian soldiers firing against enemy Turks at Tripoli Libya at that time consisted of the Turkish provinces of Tripolitania and Cyremaoca together with Rhodes Island ... Read More