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By midmorning, the last pallet was off the last Antonov. The firefighting teams, their firetrucks, and ATVs fell in under Australian tasking. The convoys were rolling out through the wire toward Churchill and Bunyip and the Prom, following Victoria Police escorts on highways that all looked the...

"To you as well." The Ambassador and his team left the room as prompted and returned back to the Embassy to report back to Ankara their conversations with the Australians. Owen

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SECRET The trains came first. Flatcars rolled into the railhead at Silopi through the night, tank after tank chained down under tarpaulins that did nothing to disguise their shape, and by morning the yard was a forest of gun barrels pointed at a sky. Ramps went down. Engines that had sat cold...

The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) vowed on Sunday to resist any Turkish military incursion into northern Iraq, warning that an invasion would ignite a wider conflict and accusing Ankara of using counterterrorism as a justification for what it described as an assault on Kurdish communities. In...

Türkiye moved a step closer to a military intervention in northern Iraq on Thursday after Parliament voted 533 to 67 to authorize Prime Minister Çiller's government to use military force against bases belonging to the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, clearing the final political hurdle before...

Amberin Zaman raised her hand. "Minister Rosseau, you began by announcing that Canada will move to outlaw the PKK and affiliated organizations, something Türkiye has long requested from many of its international partners. However, moments later you strongly criticized Türkiye's military response...

OPERATION TIGRIS HAMMER Security Classification: TOP SECRET SITUATION REPORT OVERVIEW Following the completion of Tigris Shield's and continued PKK terror attacks in Izmir and Ankara, the Prime Minister has authorized the ground component of the campaign against PKK infrastructure and...

SECRET The secure communications center sat one floor below the Prime Ministry. Three officers worked the consoles. Captain Elçin Sangu occupied the center position. A headset rested over her dark hair. One officer monitored the satellite link. The other watched the encryption terminal. The...

The convoy left the Çankaya compound at six. Three black Range Rovers and two motorcycle outriders, curtains drawn on the middle car, Kaan sat across from her with a leather folder he had not opened once during the drive. Ayşe watched Ankara go by in strips, a shuttered pharmacy, a school with...

ENCRYPTED MESSAGING SOFTWARE ENCRYPTED MESSAGE PRIVATE & SECRET ** START MESSAGE ** START MESSAGE ** START MESSAGE ** URGENCY: PRIORITY EMERGENCY - IMMEDIATE - PRIORITY TO: CIB, PKK Liaison Office Bangkok ( Bossza007 ) FROM: FIELD OFFICE, ERBIL - SYRINGE TURKISH FORCES MOBILIZING...

For weeks, Prime Minister Ayşe Çiller has said almost nothing in public about the mounting speculation that Turkey is preparing to send ground troops into northern Iraq. Her silence, allies and critics agree, has become its own kind of answer. Since taking office, Ms. Çillerhas cultivated an...

Ten hours and forty minutes later, the spine of the Aravalli hills was going gold-brown beneath them in the early light, and Devrim was thinking about nothing except the approach plate clipped in front of her. "Begumpet Approach, Bozkurt One-One, descending to eight thousand, request vectors ILS...

With army convoys massing along the southeastern frontier and a death toll from bombings climbing past 200 since January, Prime Minister Ayşe Ciller is facing the most consequential national security decision of her tenure: whether to send Turkish ground forces into northern Iraq after PKK...

Daily Sabah Footage from the Southeast along the border to Iraq shows a lot of military assets around. A significant military buildup has been ongoing for days now. @DailySabahTR