Turkey bomb the Kurds in Northern Iraq, US involved

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 1 person killed, the PKK advise 7, 5 fighters and 2 civilians. A spokesman for the region’s president, Massud Barzani, said the military strike was a “violation of Iraq’s sovereignty and appears to be backed by the United States”. Turkey advise that they informed the US before they made the attack. The US say they were aware of the attack but did nothing about it. ” We have not approved any decision, it is not for us to approve, However, we were informed before the event, ” US EMBASSY IN BAGHDAD.

Italo-Turkish War (TURKO-ITALIAN WAR - 1912)

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 and the archipelago of Dodecanese, with a Greek speaking population, near Anatolia. Italy seized these regions from the Ottoman Turks.