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On the evening of February 21, the colonial Turkish state started its land operation and occupation of South Kurdistan which has been on its agenda for weeks.
Since December 16, 2007 the Turkish army had realised many air raids against the PKK mostly in the region of Kandil mountains in South Kurdistan. During these bombings villages, schools and hospitals in the region controlled by the PKK were destroyed, too.
The operation was started immediately after the meeting of MGK (national Security Council) on February 21. The colonial armed forces, that had been preparing themselves for three weeks for the ooperations and that massed a large number of soldiers at the 400-km-long border between Iraq and Turkey in the last days, entered South Kurdistan via Uludere-Cukurca with Special Operation Teams of the Gendarmerie and commandos. The land operations are also supported by air raids. While it became known that 10.000 soldiers are ivolved in the cross-border operation, clashes between the forces of the HPG (People`s Defence Forces) and the Turkish army forces commenced..
Turkey, USA, Great Britain, Israel and Iraq had faced heavy diplomacy traffic before the operation. In the statement of the occupying USA army made from the headquarters in Iraq immediately after the start of the land attacks, it said that "it knows about the operation started by Turkey in South Kurdistan and that it will cotinue to support the activities of Ankara carried out against the PKK". With the words "The EU understood that it must safe its the citizens of Turkey from attacks" the EU approved the operation.
A limited number of Israeli planes have also been used in the operation. The USA and the other forces supporting colonial fascism are emphasizing that the operation is limited and that the Turkish army must bring an end to its operation as soon as possible and withdraw from the region. The government that started a heavy phone traffic after the start of the operations and talked to the Iraqi government. While Iraqi head of state and leader of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan Celal Talabani was invited by Turkey`s president Abdullah Gul to come to Turkey, Talabani accepted and by that, showed his approval of the land operations. Head of Kurdistan Federal Region Mesud Barzani, however, said that "they are neither on the PKK`s nor on Turkey`s side" and stressed that "every order needed has been given for general defence against attacks on citizens in the Lurdistan region or on the residential areas."
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