Turkey military operations in Iraq
أبريل 2nd, 2008This Al Jazeera news clip, from a month ago, has the headline:
الجيش التركي يعلن إنه بدأ عملية عسكرية برية في شمالي العراق
There are some key words here to help understand the news clip, including:
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جيش (jeysh) - army
عسكرية (askaria) - military عملية (a’malia) - operation (including military operations, but also medical procedures and other uses of this word) بر (barr) - land, ground أعلن (a’lana) - announce |
بدأ (bada’a) - begin
شمال (shamal) - north Also place names: تركي - Turkey عراق - Iraq |
With these words, the headline translates as “Turkey announces the army is beginning military ground operations in northern Iraq”
