Türkiye and Iraq to establish joint center for anti-terror fight

Türkiye and Iraq would set up a joint operations center to fight PKK terrorists, Türkiye’s national defense minister Yasar Guler said. 

“We have been fighting the PKK terrorist organization for 40 years. But unfortunately, for 40 years, the Iraqi government could not call them a terrorist organization or ban them. Such an organization lives in their own country and they do not feel any discomfort,” Guler said.

He noted that the Iraqi government finally declared the PKK as an outlawed group.

"Hopefully we will have more joint work with them from now on. We will establish a joint operations center," the defense minister said, adding that the local administration in Irbil viewed it positively.