August 2011 Turkey–Iraq cross-border raids

August 2011 Turkey–Iraq cross-border raids
	Part of Kurdish–Turkish conflict
Date	August 17–24, 2011
Location	northern Iraq, Turkey
Result	Indesicive Turkish Victory. Turkish claim success for the bombing operation. PKK claim to have suffered few damages.
Belligerents
Turkey Turkish Air Force;	PKK; TAK; PJAK
Commanders and leaders
Mehmet Erden; Mehmet Veysi Ağar	Murat Karayılan; Sofi Nurettin
Strength
2,500	800
Casualties and losses
None	90-160 PKK militants killed, 80 wounded. unknown civilian casualties PKK claims 3 militants were killed on August 2011.
	ROJ TV, PKK's broadcast outlet and the Iraqi Foreign Ministry claimed that 7 Iraqi Kurdish civilians, including three under the age of 18 were killed in a car. ROJ TV has shown pictures which depict a car bombed in a road. In response to these allegations, Turkish ambassador to Iraq has delivered the visual evidence. The surveillance images shows that in the road there is no craters which would be created by high explosive bombs used by the Turkish military.

On August 17, 2011, the Turkish Armed Forces launched multiple raids against Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) camps based in Iraq, striking 132 targets. Turkish military bombed PKK targets in northern Iraq in six days of air raids, according to General Staff.

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