| August 1986 Turkish incursion into northern Iraq | |||||||
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| Part of theKurdish–Turkish conflict | |||||||
.gif) 3D map of the North Iraq area | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 Turkey |  Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| 8,000 troops 10 war planes | Unknown | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| None[1] | 165 killed | ||||||
TheAugust 1986 Turkish incursion into northern Iraq, by theTurkish Air Forces andTurkish Land Forces, began on 15 August 1986, when theTurkish Military bombedKurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) targets[2][3][4][5] in northernIraq and Turkish troops crossed theIraqi border[6] as a respond to PKK attack inUludere,Hakkari on 12 August 1986 which killed 12 Turkish soldiers and injured 10 others.[7]
On 15 August 1986, at 06:00, 10 war planes started bombing PKK targets and 8,000 Turkish troops crossed the border after informing theIraqi government about the planned operation due to a security agreement signed between 2 nations in 1984. In 15 minutes, Turkish war planes destroyed several shelters owned by PKK and bombed 3 major PKK camps (codenamed Lolan, Nebadiye and Lak-1 by Turkey). At 17:30, thenPrime Minister of TurkeyTurgut Özal announced that around 100 PKK militias were killed so far and operation was going to continue. As a result of the operation, 165 PKK militias were killed. Casualties among Turkish troops remains unknown meanwhile it's known that none of the 10 war planes were destroyed or damaged.[7][8][9][10]
According to Turkish sources, some of the captured PKK militias confessed that there were many Soviet officers in PKK camps and a PKK camp in Syria was ruled by Soviet officers.[7]
