August 1986 Turkish incursion into northern Iraq

August 1986 Turkish incursion into northern Iraq
	Part of the Kurdish–Turkish conflict
	; 3D map of the North Iraq area
Date	15 August 1986
Location	northern Iraq
Result	Turkish victory
Belligerents
Turkey	Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK)
Strength
8,000 troops ; 10 war planes	Unknown
Casualties and losses
None	165 killed

The August 1986 Turkish incursion into northern Iraq, by the Turkish Air Forces and Turkish Land Forces, began on 15 August 1986, when the Turkish Military bombed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) targets^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5] in northern Iraq and Turkish troops crossed the Iraqi border^[6] as a respond to PKK attack in Uludere, Hakkari on 12 August 1986 which killed 12 Turkish soldiers and injured 10 others.^[7]

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^ "PKK'ya yönelik ilk hava harekatı böyle yapılmıştı".