Operation Nomad Shadow is the name of a

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that may have begun in November 2007 to share

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information between the U.S. and the

Republic of Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with a small portion on the Balkan Peninsula i ...

. The operation may involve only a few dozen U.S. servicemembers at any one time plus an unknown number of Turkish officials. A U.S. military-affiliated newspaper claimed the operation "reportedly provided Turkey with intelligence on Kurdish

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ahead of Turkey’s incursion into northern

Iraq Iraq,; ku, عێراق, translit=Êraq officially the Republic of Iraq, '; ku, کۆماری عێراق, translit=Komarî Êraq is a country in Western Asia. It is bordered by Turkey to Iraq–Turkey border, the north, Iran to Iran–Iraq ...

in December 2007." U.S. servicemembers who

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ed in support of Operation Nomad Shadow may have also had been concurrently attached to support Operation Iraqi Freedom. In 2013 the armed Kurdish guerrilla movement

PKK The Kurdistan Workers' Party or PKK is a Kurdish militant political organization and armed guerrilla movement, which historically operated throughout Kurdistan, but is now primarily based in the mountainous Kurdish-majority regions of southea ...

claimed to have shot down a U.S. drone patrolling the Iraq-Turkey border as part of the program."U.S. military drone surveillance is expanding to hot spots beyond declared combat zones."
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* Northern

(north of the

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)

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