Nomad Shadow

Operation Nomad Shadow is the name of a classified United States military operation that may have begun in November 2007 to share intelligence information between the U.S. and the Republic of Turkey. The operation may involve only a few dozen American 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 separatists ahead of Turkey’s incursion into northern Iraq in December 2007."[1]

U.S. servicemembers who deploy in support of Operation Nomad Shadow may also be concurrently attached to support Operation Iraqi Freedom.[2]

In 2013 the PKK claimed to have shot down an American drone patrolling the Turkey/Iraq border as part of the program.[3]

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  1. ↑ "DOD expands medal eligibility". Stars and Stripes. 2009-01-07. Retrieved 2009-01-06.
  2. ↑ "DOD officials expand eligibility for expeditionary medal". Air Force News Service. 2009-01-05. Archived from the original on 2012-07-17. Retrieved 2009-01-06.
  3. ↑ "U.S. military drone surveillance is expanding to hot spots beyond declared combat zones."
  4. ↑ "Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary (GWOT-E) Medal Approved Areas of Eligibility (AOE)" (PDF). Department of Defense. Retrieved 8 November 2015.


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