Operation Hammer (1997)
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title:
Operation Hammer (1997)
text:
Operation Hammer was the largest cross-border operation done in the history of Turkish Armed Forces into northern Iraq between 12 May and 7 July 1997 against the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). The operation's objectives were to destroy PKK units in northern Iraq, to strengthen Massoud Barzani's Kurdistan Democratic Party in its ongoing Civil War with Jalal Talabani's Patriotic Union of Kurdistan in the hope that the KDP would prevent further PKK raids into Turkey, and to counter Iranian influen
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Turkish military move against Kurdish terrorists in Iraq
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Hammer_(1997)
date created:
2007-06-03T03:24:44Z
date modified:
2024-09-05T19:02:03Z
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