August 2011 Turkey-Iraq cross-border raids

Part of Kurdish–Turkish conflict

Date	August 17–24, 2011
Location	Northern Iraq, Turkey
Result	Indesicive Turkish Victory. Turkish claim success for the bombing operation. PKK claim to have suffered few damages.

Belligerents

Turkey

Turkish Air Force

PKK
TAK

PJAK

Commanders and leaders

Strength

2,500

800

Casualties and losses

None

90-160 PKK militants killed, 80 wounded. unknown civilian casualties

PKK claims 3 militants were killed on August 2011.

ROJ TV, PKK's broadcast outlet and the Iraqi Foreign Ministry claimed that 7 Iraqi Kurdish civilians, including three under the age of 18 were killed in a car. ROJ TV has shown pictures which depict a car bombed in a road. In response to these allegations, Turkish ambassador to Iraq has delivered the visual evidence. The surveillance images shows that in the road there is no craters which would be created by high explosive bombs used by the Turkish military.

Turkey

PKK
TAK

90-160 PKK militants killed, 80 wounded. unknown civilian casualties

On August 17, 2011, the Turkish Armed Forces launched multiple raids against Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) camps based in Iraq, striking 132 targets. Turkish military bombed PKK targets in northern Iraq in six days of air raids, according to General Staff.

Between July and August in southeast Turkey, PKK fighters killed 40 Turkish security personnel. The Turkish Army launched raids in response to those series of PKK attacks.

A day before the operation, PKK fighters ambushed a troop convoy and killed nine soldiers. The first six days of air raids, the Turkish Air Force attacked 132 PKK targets in northern Iraq, killing 90 to 100 militants. However, casualty figures could not be confirmed independently. According to Turkish army statements, 80 militants were wounded in the operations, which hit 73 shelters, eight stores and nine anti-aircraft positions.

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