The Turkish "Anatolia" agency reported that the Turkish army destroyed the sites of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in northern Iraq, as part of an operation called "the claw - the tiger" that started yesterday morning. The agency added that Turkish special forces began entering the hideouts of the party's fighters after paving artillery and rocket launchers with more than 150 targets in northern Iraq.

And the Turkish Ministry of Defense announced yesterday dawn the start of the "claw-tiger" operation in the "Haftanin" region, northern Iraq, according to what it stated in a tweet, on its official account on the social networking site "Twitter".

The ministry did not mention the number of special forces participating in the operation, but the official TV channel, TRT, reported that hundreds of troops crossed the land borders into northern Iraq from Uludere region in the border state of Sirnak, starting at one in the morning and by helicopter as well.

The Turkish Minister of Defense, Khulusi Akar, addressed yesterday, via the radio, to the officers participating in the operation, in which he said: “We believe that the Turkish commando forces will control epics in those mountains (northern Iraq) again,” he says.

The launch of the new operation comes despite Iraq’s criticism of the first operation and Baghdad’s recall of the Turkish ambassador, the day before yesterday, to inform him of its protest.

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