108. The PKK Battle on Garê Mountain
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Jake Hanrahan
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🗓️ 2 March 2021
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Today we speak to Kurdish researcher and writer Abdullah Hawez. He's going into detail about the recent skirmish between the Kurdish PKK militant group and the Turkish military in the mountains of Kurdistan.
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| 0:00.0 | This is popular front a podcast focused on the niche details of modern warfare and |
| 0:08.7 | underreported conflict with me Jake Hanrahan. |
| 0:12.4 | Today we're speaking again. with me Jake Hanrahan. |
| 0:13.0 | Today we're speaking again to researcher and writer Abdullah Howez. |
| 0:18.0 | He covers everything related to conflict in Kurdistan and Densohn. Abdullah is going to be speaking about the recent battle |
| 0:26.2 | between Kurdish PKK militants and the Turkish military. The Turkish military deployed forces to a place called Gara Mountain in Iraqi |
| 0:36.6 | Kurdistan in the mountains where the PKK control and it all went absolutely haywire. |
| 0:41.8 | Abdullah is going to explain how it went down. |
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| 1:12.8 | Okay Abdullah. Um, welcome back firstly. So let's go over what happened recently. There was a situation in Kurdistan where Turkey, I mean it's a little bit hazy. They said they were going into rescue some of their POWs they reckon they were going to be in and out in a day and it turned into this |
| 1:17.2 | full-on like small-scale conflict for a few days maybe just go over the start. What actually happened and what's going on now? |
| 1:25.0 | A couple weeks ago, Turkey announced a new military operation in Iraq, Kurdistan. |
| 1:30.0 | I mean, that's exactly what they said. the official announcement was that they are going to announce a new military operation in Gara Mountains |
| 1:40.0 | so Gara is around 40 kilometers within the Kurdistan border. |
| 1:47.0 | So it's 40 kilometers far from the Turkish border. |
| 1:51.0 | It's a very mountainous area by the way. There's a lot of PKK presence in this area. |
| 1:58.4 | So they said it's a new military operation and I personally thought yeah this is the thing although from day one |
| 2:06.8 | PKK announced Turkey has bombarded a present where at least 13 Turkish captives were held. |
| 2:18.0 | So we have this news from the beginning, but I personally thought the scope of the operation is |
| 2:25.6 | wider and this is that was the impression the Turkish media and and the Turkish officials gave at the time, but we did have a clue that it was it was operation |
| 2:41.6 | focused on rescuing the captives because Pekk, they did say that from day one. |
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