August 1986 Turkish incursion into northern Iraq

The August 1986 Turkish incursion into northern Iraq, by the Turkish Air Forces and Turkish Land Forces, began on 15 August 1986, when the Turkish Military bombed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) targets[1][2][3][4] in northern Iraq and Turkish troops crossed the Iraqi border[5] as a respond to PKK attack in Uludere, Hakkari on 12 August 1986 which killed 12 Turkish soldiers and injured 10 others.[6]

August 1986 Turkish incursion into northern Iraq
Part of the Kurdish–Turkish conflict

3D map of the North Iraq area
Date15 August 1986
Location
northern Iraq
Result Turkish victory
Belligerents
 Turkey PKK
Strength
8,000 troops
10 war planes		 Unknown
Casualties and losses
Unknown casualties among troops
No airplanes were destroyed or damaged		 165 killed

Operation

On 15 August 1986, at 06:00, 10 war planes started bombing PKK targets and 8,000 Turkish troops crossed the border after informing the Iraqi government about the planned operation due to a security agreement signed between 2 nations in 1984. In 15 minutes, Turkish war planes destroyed several shelters owned by PKK and bombed 3 major PKK camps (codenamed Lolan, Nebadiye and Lak-1 by Turkey). At 17:30, then Prime Minister of Turkey Turgut Özal announced that around 100 PKK militias were killed so far and operation was going to continue. As a result of the operation, 165 PKK militias were killed. Casualties among Turkish troops remains unknown meanwhile it's known that none of the 10 war planes were destroyed or damaged.[6][7][8][9]

Alleged Soviet help

According to Turkish sources, some of the captured PKK militias confessed that there were many Soviet officers in PKK camps and a PKK camp in Syria was ruled by Soviet officers.[6]

References
  1. "Geçmişten günümüze Irak'ın kuzeyine tüm harekatlar". www.hurriyet.com.tr (in Turkish). Retrieved 2020-10-16.
  2. "Bianet". bianet.org. Retrieved 2020-10-16.
  3. Yüksel, Emincan. "TSK'nın Sınır Ötesi Harekatları". www.dogrulukpayi.com (in Turkish). Retrieved 2020-10-16.
  4. "İşte gün gün yapılan sınır ötesi operasyonlar". www.haberturk.com (in Turkish). Retrieved 2020-10-16.
  5. "Yıl yıl kara operasyonları". Milliyet (in Turkish). Retrieved 2020-10-16.
  6. "PKK'ya yönelik ilk hava harekatı böyle yapılmıştı".
  7. "Irak'ın kuzeyine gerçekleştirilen büyük harekatlar". www.trthaber.com (in Turkish). Retrieved 2020-10-16.
  8. "Sınır ötesi operasyonlar 1983'te başladı- CNN TÜRK - tarafsız güvenilir haberler". 2016-03-04. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2020-10-16.
  9. "TSK'nın sınır ötesi operasyonları". Al Jazeera Turk - Ortadoğu, Kafkasya, Balkanlar, Türkiye ve çevresindeki bölgeden son dakika haberleri ve analizler (in Turkish). Retrieved 2020-10-16.
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