{"id":188,"date":"2008-02-24T06:29:21","date_gmt":"2008-02-24T10:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/mesh\/2008\/02\/maps_pkk_northern_iraq\/"},"modified":"2008-03-16T20:47:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-17T00:47:00","slug":"maps_pkk_northern_iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/2008\/02\/maps_pkk_northern_iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"PKK bases in northern Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>From MESH Admin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Thursday evening, Turkish forces entered northern Iraq to do battle with the Kurdistan Workers&#8217; Party, or PKK. Iraqi foreign minister Hoshyar Zebari has called the move &#8220;a limited military incursion into a remote, isolated and uninhabited region.&#8221; According to various sources, there have been clashes in the Qandil mountains along the Iraqi-Iranian border and in the Zap region. Turkish aircraft reportedly also bombed targets around Al-Amadiyah, an Iraqi Kurdish mountain town about 10 kilometers south of the Turkish border.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtoninstitute.org\" target=\"_blank\"><!--more-->The Washington Institute for Near East Policy<\/a> has made available three maps showing the location of PKK enclaves in northern Iraq. (Click on each thumbnail to see the full map.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtoninstitute.org\/mapImages\/47bb356330675.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/mesh\/files\/2008\/02\/onaythumbnail.png\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>The first one has been prepared by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtoninstitute.org\/templateC10.php?CID=35\" target=\"_blank\">Abdulkadir Onay<\/a>, a lieutenant colonel in the Turkish Army and a visiting military fellow at The Washington Institute. It divides the PKK presence in northern Iraq into eight regions, delineates them, and numbers the camps and &#8220;the approximate number of terrorists&#8221; in each region. It also shows which parts of northern Iraq are accessible only with PKK authorization<\/p>\n<p>The other two maps, from last year, show the same area in a satellite view that gives a sense of the topography, and marks PKK bases. One map shows the western sector, the other shows the eastern sector.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtoninstitute.org\/mapImages\/471f964e18a6f.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tbn0.google.com\/images?q=tbn:2pN3FVu-cUiGcM:http:\/\/www.washingtoninstitute.org\/mapImages\/471f964e18a6f.jpg\" \/><\/a><font color=\"#ffffff\">. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .<\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtoninstitute.org\/mapImages\/471f95d2b5745.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tbn0.google.com\/images?q=tbn:uR0nvYrFd7ti3M:http:\/\/www.washingtoninstitute.org\/mapImages\/471f95d2b5745.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From MESH Admin On Thursday evening, Turkish forces entered northern Iraq to do battle with the Kurdistan Workers&#8217; Party, or PKK. Iraqi foreign minister Hoshyar Zebari has called the move &#8220;a limited military incursion into a remote, isolated and uninhabited region.&#8221; According to various sources, there have been clashes in the Qandil mountains along the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1620,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2258,401,1910,2219,1911],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-counterinsurgency","category-iraq","category-maps","category-terrorism","category-turkey"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1620"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":908,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions\/908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}