{"id":39224,"date":"2019-08-25T13:10:37","date_gmt":"2019-08-25T05:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=39224"},"modified":"2019-08-25T13:19:35","modified_gmt":"2019-08-25T05:19:35","slug":"turkey-launches-new-military-operation-in-northern-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=39224","title":{"rendered":"Turkey Launches New Military Operation In Northern Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>ANKARA, Turkey, Aug 25 (NNN-ANADOLU) &#8211; Turkey launched a new military operation, dubbed: Operation Claw-3, in northern Iraq, against rebels of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers&#8217; Party (PKK), who have base camps there, Turkish Defence Ministry announced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Operation Claw-3 is being carried out with the aim of securing the border and destroying caves and shelters of terrorists in northern Iraq,&#8221; said the ministry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The operation is launched to &#8220;facilitate border security, neutralise terrorists, and destroy shelters in the Sinat-Haftanin region in northern Iraq,&#8221; the ministry added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two previous Operation Claw operations were launched by the Turkish army in May and July, aimed at preventing the infiltration of PKK terrorists into Turkey. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The PKK is listed as a terrorist organisation by Turkey, the United States and the EU. The conflict has, since the early 1980&#8217;s, claimed the lives of 40,000 people.&#8211; NNN-ANADOLU <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANKARA, Turkey, Aug 25 (NNN-ANADOLU) &#8211; Turkey launched a new military operation, dubbed: Operation Claw-3, in northern Iraq, against rebels of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers&#8217; Party (PKK), who have base camps there, Turkish Defence Ministry announced. &#8220;Operation Claw-3 is being carried out with the aim of securing the border and destroying caves and shelters of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":39231,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[209,217,194],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39224"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}