Why in News
Twelve Turkish soldiers have been killed over two days in separate attacks on bases in Iraq.
Turkey has operated several dozen military posts in northern Iraq for the past 25 years in its decades-old war against the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).
A group blacklisted by Turkey and many of its Western allies as a terrorist organisation.
Ankara – location
Ankara, Turkey’s cosmopolitan capital, sits in the country’s central Anatolia region.
It’s a center for the performing arts, home to the State Opera and Ballet, the Presidential Symphony Orchestra and several national theater companies.
Overlooking the city is Anitkabir, the enormous hilltop mausoleum of Kemal Atatürk, modern Turkey’s first president, who declared Ankara the capital in 1923.
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