{"id":32825,"date":"2024-09-17T01:49:06","date_gmt":"2024-09-16T22:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=32825"},"modified":"2024-09-17T01:49:06","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T22:49:06","slug":"a-senior-pkk-official-injured-in-a-turkish-strike-in-northern-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/17\/a-senior-pkk-official-injured-in-a-turkish-strike-in-northern-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"A Senior PKK Official Injured in a Turkish Strike in Northern Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sudan Events &#8211; Agencies<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Counter-Terrorism Service of Iraq\u2019s Kurdistan region said on Monday that a Turkish drone strike killed a member of the Kurdistan Workers&#8217; Party (PKK) and injured two others in northern Iraq.<br \/>\nThe agency added in a statement: &#8220;The strike targeted a meeting of PKK members in the Makhmour camp, killing one member and injuring two others, one of whom is a senior PKK official,&#8221; according to Reuters.<br \/>\nTurkey frequently carries out airstrikes targeting PKK militants in northern Iraq and maintains dozens of advanced observation posts inside its territory.<br \/>\nThe PKK has taken up arms against Ankara since 1984, initially seeking to establish an independent Kurdish state but later shifting its goal to seeking Kurdish rights and semi-autonomous governance in southeastern Turkey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan Events &#8211; Agencies The Counter-Terrorism Service of Iraq\u2019s Kurdistan region said on Monday that a Turkish drone strike killed a member of the Kurdistan Workers&#8217; Party (PKK) and injured two others in northern Iraq. The agency added in a statement: &#8220;The strike targeted a meeting of PKK members in the Makhmour camp, killing one &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32826,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32825\/revisions\/32826"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}