Middle East Newspaper: 20 Turkish military base located in Iraqi Kurdistan

SANAA , Jan. 29 (YPA) – Middle East Newspaper revealed the presence of 20 military bases in Turkish Kurdistan region of Iraq.

The newspaper said in a report on Monday that “there are about 20 bases and military headquarters in Turkey distributed in the provinces of Erbil and Dohuk, in the framework of an agreement signed between the Turkish government and the Iraqi Kurdistan government in 1995.”

The report indicated that the largest Turkish bases located in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, and equipped with the aircraft platform called “Bamrani” north of the city of Dohuk, which was used by Saddam Hussein in his visits to the resort of Sersank in the eighties of the last century, and it is a logistics base and an airport.

The report pointed out that there are a number of military bases and Turkish intelligence centers inside Iraqi territory, including the Batufh, Kani Masi and Senki bases, the Bikufa compound base, the Zakho valley base, the Siri military base in Chiladze, the Koeki bases, the Kiriyi Berwari, the Sipi huts, the Driyatoua, the Gil Sarziri, and the Zilkan base near Jabal Makloub in Baasheqa.

The newspaper noted that the presence of a number of headquarters of Turkish intelligence in Amadiyah, Batofa, Zakho and Dahuk.

Sameera Hassn