BBC World Service investigation reveals Turkey’s military expansion in northern Iraq, where a vast area is known to locals as the Forbidden Zone Turkey’s Hidden War – The Forbidden Zone ...

But "we cannot reach the border to know the number of posts", he adds. Turkey's military expansion in Iraqi Kurdistan - fuelled by its rise as a drone power and growing defence budget - is seen as ...

Turkey’s entire political spectrum – from the far Left to the far Right is united around the idea of territorial expansion ...

Fighting between the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and the Turkish military has ceased in ... Ankara was able to push the PKK from Turkey into northern Iraq, denying the group free movement ...

Relations between Turkey and Iraq were often strained over Turkish military incursions into northern Iraq for operations against the banned Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, and the ...

Relations between Turkey and Iraq were often strained over Turkish military incursions into northern Iraq for operations against the banned Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, and the ...

reveals the story of Turkey’s military expansion in northern Iraq. For decades, Turkey has fought to root out the PKK – a Kurdish organisation banned as a terrorist group in Turkey ...