Turkey

The Turkish military has begun to withdraw from northern Iraq, one day after the US Secretary of Defense urged Turkey to end operations. More than 240 terrorists from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party and 27 Turkish soldiers were killed in the week-long operation.

Bill Roggio is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the Editor of FDD's Long War Journal.

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