Military operation

August 1986 Turkish incursion into northern Iraq

1986 · 39.00° N, 36.00° E

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1986
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Military operation
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39.00° N, 36.00° E
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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 in northern Iraq and Turkish troops crossed the Iraqi border as a respond to PKK attack in Uludere, Hakkari on 12 August 1986 which killed 12 Turkish soldiers and injured 10 others.

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