s against the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in the Kurdistan Region are nothing new. Ankara’s most recent attacks on the group, however, struck areas presently under the control of the Baghdad government.Joel Wing, author of the Musings on Iraq blog, pointed out that
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has attacked suspected PKK targets "with increasing intensity" in the northern part of the Kurdistan Region over "the last several months".