{"id":36259,"date":"2019-03-19T14:23:18","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T14:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=36259"},"modified":"2019-03-19T14:23:18","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T14:23:18","slug":"iran-denies-joint-raid-with-turkey-against-kurd-rebels-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=36259","title":{"rendered":"Iran denies joint raid with Turkey against Kurd rebels"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1468951\/middle-east\" readability=\"45\">\n<p>\nTEHRAN: Iran has denied a claim by the Turkish interior minister that it took part in a joint operation on Monday targeting Kurdish rebels in the border area.<br \/>In recent weeks, Ankara has talked up the prospects of joint military action with Tehran against the Kurdistan Workers\u2019 Party (PKK) and its allies but Monday marked the first time it had spoken of a joint operation being carried out.<br \/>\u201cIran\u2019s armed forces have no role in this operation,\u201d the official IRNA news agency quoted an \u201cinformed source\u201d in the general staff as saying on Monday evening.<br \/>However Iran \u201cwill forcefully confront any group that seeks to create unrest on our country\u2019s soil,\u201d the source added.<br \/>Earlier on Monday, Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said: \u201cWe started staging a joint operation with Iran against the PKK on our eastern border as of 8 am (0500 GMT).\u201d<br \/>Soylu did not specify where the joint operation was taking place but President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said previously that joint military action would focus on PKK rear bases in Iraq near where the three countries\u2019 borders meet.<br \/>The Turkish military has carried out repeated bombing campaigns against PKK targets in Iraq\u2019s northern mountains during its more than three-decade campaign to crush the rebels\u2019 campaign for Kurdish self-rule in southeastern Turkey.<br \/>In recent years, Tehran too has carried out operations in northern Iraq against suspected rear bases of the PKK\u2019s Iran-focused ally, the Party of Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK).<br \/>PJAK is one of a number of Kurdish rebel groups that have fought the Iranian security forces in ethnic Kurdish districts along the border.<br \/>Another PKK ally, the People\u2019s Protection Units (YPG), is the main Kurdish armed group in Syria where, to the fury of Ankara, it has been a key ally in the US-led campaign against the extremists of the Daesh group which is now drawing to a close.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN: Iran has denied a claim by the Turkish interior minister that it took part in a joint operation on Monday targeting Kurdish rebels in the border area.In recent weeks, Ankara has talked up the prospects of joint military action with Tehran against the Kurdistan Workers\u2019 Party (PKK) and its allies but Monday marked the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}