Scenario 3: Military Escalation If Ankara concludes the PKK's dissolution is a smokescreen, it could greenlight a major ...

In 2015, Turkey built one of its largest military bases in Bashiqa near Mosul and outside the Iraqi Kurdistan Region. Since 2016 Turkey has reestablished control of urban centres populated by ...

as well as cooperation over Ankara's military training facility in Bashiqa. Though the facility has housed Turkish forces since 2015, it was previously unauthorized by the Iraqi government ...