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Kurdish forces kill three Turkish-backed rebels in Syria’s Afrin
Wladimir van Wilgenburg |
Turkish-backed rebels plundered the city of Afrin after they took control on March 18. (Photo: AFP/Bulent Kilic)
ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – The Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) said on Tuesday that they had killed three rebels supported by Turkey in a series of military operations in the Afrin region.
"On July 28 our units infiltrated to the area where the headquarters of Sultan Murad Brigade is located and carried out an operation against the mercenaries in Afrin’s Shara district," the YPG said in a statement released on its website. “Two terrorists have been killed and one has been injured as result of the attack.”
The group also announced on the same day that its forces ambushed and killed the commander of a battalion of the Sham Corps in Jinderes, but did not release the commander's name.
Although Kurdish forces lost Afrin to Turkish troops and Syrian rebels on March 18 as a result of Ankara’s “Operation Olive Branch,” the YPG said it would continue its resistance, targeting rebel forces backed by Turkey in Afrin.
The YPG General Command said on Saturday that the people of Afrin “have never given up the resistance against the Turkish occupation” despite forced immigration, ethnic cleansing, looting, theft, and mass killings.
On Sunday, the YPG said that they carried out several attacks on the Turkish army and affiliated rebel groups in Afrin, killing 11.
According to the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights (SOHR), members of the YPG carry out assassinations against rebel forces with sleeper cells and, in response, Turkish-backed rebels have carried out operations to search for these cells.
“They arrested several people and took them to their headquarters" on the charge of “operating as sleeper cells of the Kurdish forces”,” the SOHR reported last Monday.
According to SOHR, at least 98 attacks were carried out by the YPG against Turkish forces and Syrian rebel forces, through detonation of landmines and IEDs and targeting by missiles using shoulder-fired launchers.
"This resulted in the death of tens of fighters of the factions and the Turkish forces during targeting operations whose pace escalated in the past 3 months,” SOHR said.
According to SOHR, at least 1,542 Kurdish fighters, 609 Syrian rebels, and 83 Turkish soldiers have been killed since Turkey launched its assault on January 20. The YPG, however, claims they have killed 2,541 Syrian rebels and Turkish soldiers in that time.
Analysts say the YPG has continued operations after the fall of Afrin in March to make it as difficult as possible for the Turkish army and rebel forces to control the region.
“There are Turkish forces in Afrin and the YPG views them as illegitimate and has maintained that it will punish those forces,” Aaron Stein, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, told Kurdistan 24.
“Afrin still isn’t stable after [Operation] Olive Branch, and there are worrying signs that an insurgency is taking hold.”
Editing by John J. Catherine
Source: Kurdish forces kill three Turkish-backed rebels in Syria’s Afrin
Wladimir van Wilgenburg |
Turkish-backed rebels plundered the city of Afrin after they took control on March 18. (Photo: AFP/Bulent Kilic)
ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – The Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) said on Tuesday that they had killed three rebels supported by Turkey in a series of military operations in the Afrin region.
"On July 28 our units infiltrated to the area where the headquarters of Sultan Murad Brigade is located and carried out an operation against the mercenaries in Afrin’s Shara district," the YPG said in a statement released on its website. “Two terrorists have been killed and one has been injured as result of the attack.”
The group also announced on the same day that its forces ambushed and killed the commander of a battalion of the Sham Corps in Jinderes, but did not release the commander's name.
Although Kurdish forces lost Afrin to Turkish troops and Syrian rebels on March 18 as a result of Ankara’s “Operation Olive Branch,” the YPG said it would continue its resistance, targeting rebel forces backed by Turkey in Afrin.
The YPG General Command said on Saturday that the people of Afrin “have never given up the resistance against the Turkish occupation” despite forced immigration, ethnic cleansing, looting, theft, and mass killings.
On Sunday, the YPG said that they carried out several attacks on the Turkish army and affiliated rebel groups in Afrin, killing 11.
According to the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights (SOHR), members of the YPG carry out assassinations against rebel forces with sleeper cells and, in response, Turkish-backed rebels have carried out operations to search for these cells.
“They arrested several people and took them to their headquarters" on the charge of “operating as sleeper cells of the Kurdish forces”,” the SOHR reported last Monday.
According to SOHR, at least 98 attacks were carried out by the YPG against Turkish forces and Syrian rebel forces, through detonation of landmines and IEDs and targeting by missiles using shoulder-fired launchers.
"This resulted in the death of tens of fighters of the factions and the Turkish forces during targeting operations whose pace escalated in the past 3 months,” SOHR said.
According to SOHR, at least 1,542 Kurdish fighters, 609 Syrian rebels, and 83 Turkish soldiers have been killed since Turkey launched its assault on January 20. The YPG, however, claims they have killed 2,541 Syrian rebels and Turkish soldiers in that time.
Analysts say the YPG has continued operations after the fall of Afrin in March to make it as difficult as possible for the Turkish army and rebel forces to control the region.
“There are Turkish forces in Afrin and the YPG views them as illegitimate and has maintained that it will punish those forces,” Aaron Stein, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, told Kurdistan 24.
“Afrin still isn’t stable after [Operation] Olive Branch, and there are worrying signs that an insurgency is taking hold.”
Editing by John J. Catherine
Source: Kurdish forces kill three Turkish-backed rebels in Syria’s Afrin
Erdogan’s Most Charismatic Rival Challenges Him, From Jail
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Selahattin Demirtas, the presidential candidate of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, has been held in a Turkish prison for more than 20 months.CreditYasin Akgul/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
By Carlotta Gall
Today, Mr. Demirtas is in prison, where he has been for more than 20 months on 100 charges ranging from terrorism to insulting that same leader, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. He has been barred from the mainstream media.
Yet all of that did not stop him from running for the presidency in Turkey’s recent elections — and finishing third.
Now that Mr. Erdogan has won the June 24 election, the chances that Mr. Demirtas will be released from prison are dimming. Mr. Erdogan is amassing power in a new presidential system — allowing him to exert control in nearly every aspect of public life — and has effectively sidelined those who challenge him.
Mr. Demirtas and his supporters say the charges against him are political, aimed at crushing his pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party, or H.D.P.
That tactic seems to have failed, even as Mr. Demirtas’s own hopes have diminished. The party cleared the 10 percent threshold needed to win a place in Parliament, securing 67 seats in the expanded 600-member legislature.
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Supporters of the Peoples’ Democratic Party demanding the release of Mr. Demirtas in front of Istanbul’s courthouse in May.CreditOzan Kose/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
The result represented the party’s third successive electoral success since 2015, when it first won seats in Parliament, and showed that Mr. Demirtas’s vision of peace and democracy in Turkey still resonates with Kurds, as well as with some liberals, young people and minority voters.
“Under these circumstances it is a great success that H.D.P. has a place in Parliament,” he said in a message posted on Twitter the day after the election. It was one in a series of notes passed along to his lawyers for posting, his only way of communicating regularly with supporters.
“Whatever my circumstances are,” he added, “I want everybody to know that I will continue the struggle without being discouraged.”
Members of the opposition alliance against Mr. Erdogan had called for the release of Mr. Demirtas, 45, a former human rights lawyer, but he faces potential life imprisonment if convicted of just some of the charges against him.
Mr. Erdogan has labeled the Peoples’ Democratic Party a separatist organization, called for a swift resolution to Mr. Demirtas’s trial, and even suggested that he would sign the death penalty back into law if Parliament passed it.
Every week, Mr. Demirtas’s wife, Basak, 41, travels the length of the country and back — about 2,000 miles — to talk to her husband through a window in the high-security prison at Edirne in western Turkey.
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Kurds clashing with the police in 2015 during a protest against a curfew in Kurdish towns.CreditIlyas Akengin/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
Once a month, the family is allowed to meet in a room. Ms. Demirtas, a schoolteacher, limits her daughters, 12 and 14, to monthly visits because the trip is so grueling.
Childhood sweethearts, the couple grew up in the warren of small streets and ancient monuments of Sur, a neighborhood inside the old walled city of Diyarbakir. The imposing black basalt city walls that date from the Byzantine era encircle the old city like a massive fortress on a hill above the Tigris River.
But the Sur neighborhood is more like an empty parking lot today. The houses have been razed, and the few mosques and historical buildings left are surrounded by empty stretches of rough ground.
As Basak Demirtas traveled to visit her imprisoned husband, Selahattin Demirtas, she explained how Turkey’s political climate affects her family.Published OnJuly 31, 2018
Mr. Erdogan came to power in 2002 offering to make peace with the insurgent Kurdistan Workers’ Party that has been fighting an insurgency in Turkey for nearly three decades. He came close to achieving that with the help of Mr. Demirtas, whose peaceful activists worked as mediators with the insurgents.
But in 2015 the peace talks broke down and both sides returned to violence. Activists took to the streets, and for 18 months the Turkish government conducted punitive security operations in 30 Kurdish cities, including Diyarbakir, raising the conflict to a level of urban strife never seen before in Turkey.
A United Nations report estimates that around 2,000 people were killed in that period, many of them civilians, while 355,000 Kurds were displaced.
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Mr. Demirtas’s wife, Basak, casting her ballot in Diyarbaki on Election Day in June.CreditSertac Kayar/Reuters
Ms. Demirtas described how government bombing would wake the family up in their apartment across town.
“One night it was so bad I thought they were bombing all of Diyarbakir,” she said. “Can you imagine that we could hear it from 20 kilometers away?”
The Turkish government has blamed Mr. Demirtas and his party for encouraging people to resist the government in the cities, along with the armed Kurdistan Workers’ Party.
Mr. Demirtas and his followers insist that they espoused only peaceful, democratic means. They accuse the government of waging the military campaign because of the party’s surprising success at the polls.
Mr. Demirtas was detained in October 2016. Police officers came for him at 1:30 a.m., though he had spent the previous day alone in their apartment while his wife was at work.
“I could not count them — there were 200 or more,” his wife said. “In this block, for 500 meters up to my sister’s house, it was all police, special forces with masks.”
The Sur neighborhood of Diyarbakir is like an empty parking lot after punitive security operations by the government.CreditIlyas Akengin/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
“I always say he was not detained,” she said. “Selahattin was kidnapped.”
The Turkish authorities placed Mr. Demirtas in a prison at the opposite end of the country from his home as “punishment to the family,” Ms. Demirtas said.
“It is hard, but thankfully we have the means,” she said. “I know a mother who could not visit her daughter for a year.”
As many as 5,000 members of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, including nine members of Parliament and 50 mayors, have been detained in the government crackdown over the last two years.
Mr. Demirtas, sometimes called the Kurdish Barack Obama for his inspiring speech, lifted the party and his people in the grim aftermath, touring the regions and offering humor and optimism.
“The connection between him and the people was this side of him — the humor,” his wife said.
Even in prison, she said, he maintained his spirit. “He did not in any aspect get desperate,” Ms. Demirtas said. “So people raised their hope.”
Mr. Demirtas campaigned at one remove, using his weekly phone call home to record a speech that his party then distributed online.
He was allowed a single appearance on state television, where he offered hope while also warning of hardship.
“There is a serious opportunity ahead of us before entering an obscure dark tunnel,” Mr. Demirtas said. “We will evaluate this opportunity together, and you will see that we will pull our country from the edge of a cliff.”
His wife remains fiercely hopeful, too. “I strongly believe that when there is a fair and independent judiciary,” Ms. Demirtas said, “he will be acquitted from all charges.”
Source :www.nytimes.com/2018/07/31/world/europe/turkey-kurds-selahattin-demirtas.html
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Selahattin Demirtas, the presidential candidate of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, has been held in a Turkish prison for more than 20 months.CreditYasin Akgul/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
By Carlotta Gall
- July 31, 2018
Today, Mr. Demirtas is in prison, where he has been for more than 20 months on 100 charges ranging from terrorism to insulting that same leader, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. He has been barred from the mainstream media.
Yet all of that did not stop him from running for the presidency in Turkey’s recent elections — and finishing third.
Now that Mr. Erdogan has won the June 24 election, the chances that Mr. Demirtas will be released from prison are dimming. Mr. Erdogan is amassing power in a new presidential system — allowing him to exert control in nearly every aspect of public life — and has effectively sidelined those who challenge him.
Mr. Demirtas and his supporters say the charges against him are political, aimed at crushing his pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party, or H.D.P.
That tactic seems to have failed, even as Mr. Demirtas’s own hopes have diminished. The party cleared the 10 percent threshold needed to win a place in Parliament, securing 67 seats in the expanded 600-member legislature.
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Supporters of the Peoples’ Democratic Party demanding the release of Mr. Demirtas in front of Istanbul’s courthouse in May.CreditOzan Kose/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
The result represented the party’s third successive electoral success since 2015, when it first won seats in Parliament, and showed that Mr. Demirtas’s vision of peace and democracy in Turkey still resonates with Kurds, as well as with some liberals, young people and minority voters.
“Under these circumstances it is a great success that H.D.P. has a place in Parliament,” he said in a message posted on Twitter the day after the election. It was one in a series of notes passed along to his lawyers for posting, his only way of communicating regularly with supporters.
“Whatever my circumstances are,” he added, “I want everybody to know that I will continue the struggle without being discouraged.”
Members of the opposition alliance against Mr. Erdogan had called for the release of Mr. Demirtas, 45, a former human rights lawyer, but he faces potential life imprisonment if convicted of just some of the charges against him.
Mr. Erdogan has labeled the Peoples’ Democratic Party a separatist organization, called for a swift resolution to Mr. Demirtas’s trial, and even suggested that he would sign the death penalty back into law if Parliament passed it.
Every week, Mr. Demirtas’s wife, Basak, 41, travels the length of the country and back — about 2,000 miles — to talk to her husband through a window in the high-security prison at Edirne in western Turkey.
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Kurds clashing with the police in 2015 during a protest against a curfew in Kurdish towns.CreditIlyas Akengin/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
Once a month, the family is allowed to meet in a room. Ms. Demirtas, a schoolteacher, limits her daughters, 12 and 14, to monthly visits because the trip is so grueling.
Childhood sweethearts, the couple grew up in the warren of small streets and ancient monuments of Sur, a neighborhood inside the old walled city of Diyarbakir. The imposing black basalt city walls that date from the Byzantine era encircle the old city like a massive fortress on a hill above the Tigris River.
But the Sur neighborhood is more like an empty parking lot today. The houses have been razed, and the few mosques and historical buildings left are surrounded by empty stretches of rough ground.
As Basak Demirtas traveled to visit her imprisoned husband, Selahattin Demirtas, she explained how Turkey’s political climate affects her family.Published OnJuly 31, 2018
Mr. Erdogan came to power in 2002 offering to make peace with the insurgent Kurdistan Workers’ Party that has been fighting an insurgency in Turkey for nearly three decades. He came close to achieving that with the help of Mr. Demirtas, whose peaceful activists worked as mediators with the insurgents.
But in 2015 the peace talks broke down and both sides returned to violence. Activists took to the streets, and for 18 months the Turkish government conducted punitive security operations in 30 Kurdish cities, including Diyarbakir, raising the conflict to a level of urban strife never seen before in Turkey.
A United Nations report estimates that around 2,000 people were killed in that period, many of them civilians, while 355,000 Kurds were displaced.
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Mr. Demirtas’s wife, Basak, casting her ballot in Diyarbaki on Election Day in June.CreditSertac Kayar/Reuters
Ms. Demirtas described how government bombing would wake the family up in their apartment across town.
“One night it was so bad I thought they were bombing all of Diyarbakir,” she said. “Can you imagine that we could hear it from 20 kilometers away?”
The Turkish government has blamed Mr. Demirtas and his party for encouraging people to resist the government in the cities, along with the armed Kurdistan Workers’ Party.
Mr. Demirtas and his followers insist that they espoused only peaceful, democratic means. They accuse the government of waging the military campaign because of the party’s surprising success at the polls.
Mr. Demirtas was detained in October 2016. Police officers came for him at 1:30 a.m., though he had spent the previous day alone in their apartment while his wife was at work.
“I could not count them — there were 200 or more,” his wife said. “In this block, for 500 meters up to my sister’s house, it was all police, special forces with masks.”
The Sur neighborhood of Diyarbakir is like an empty parking lot after punitive security operations by the government.CreditIlyas Akengin/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
“I always say he was not detained,” she said. “Selahattin was kidnapped.”
The Turkish authorities placed Mr. Demirtas in a prison at the opposite end of the country from his home as “punishment to the family,” Ms. Demirtas said.
“It is hard, but thankfully we have the means,” she said. “I know a mother who could not visit her daughter for a year.”
As many as 5,000 members of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, including nine members of Parliament and 50 mayors, have been detained in the government crackdown over the last two years.
Mr. Demirtas, sometimes called the Kurdish Barack Obama for his inspiring speech, lifted the party and his people in the grim aftermath, touring the regions and offering humor and optimism.
“The connection between him and the people was this side of him — the humor,” his wife said.
Even in prison, she said, he maintained his spirit. “He did not in any aspect get desperate,” Ms. Demirtas said. “So people raised their hope.”
Mr. Demirtas campaigned at one remove, using his weekly phone call home to record a speech that his party then distributed online.
He was allowed a single appearance on state television, where he offered hope while also warning of hardship.
“There is a serious opportunity ahead of us before entering an obscure dark tunnel,” Mr. Demirtas said. “We will evaluate this opportunity together, and you will see that we will pull our country from the edge of a cliff.”
His wife remains fiercely hopeful, too. “I strongly believe that when there is a fair and independent judiciary,” Ms. Demirtas said, “he will be acquitted from all charges.”
Source :www.nytimes.com/2018/07/31/world/europe/turkey-kurds-selahattin-demirtas.html
Kurdish forces kill three Turkish-backed rebels in Syria’s Afrin
Wladimir van Wilgenburg |
Turkish-backed rebels plundered the city of Afrin after they took control on March 18. (Photo: AFP/Bulent Kilic)
ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – The Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) said on Tuesday that they had killed three rebels supported by Turkey in a series of military operations in the Afrin region.
"On July 28 our units infiltrated to the area where the headquarters of Sultan Murad Brigade is located and carried out an operation against the mercenaries in Afrin’s Shara district," the YPG said in a statement released on its website. “Two terrorists have been killed and one has been injured as result of the attack.”
The group also announced on the same day that its forces ambushed and killed the commander of a battalion of the Sham Corps in Jinderes, but did not release the commander's name.
Although Kurdish forces lost Afrin to Turkish troops and Syrian rebels on March 18 as a result of Ankara’s “Operation Olive Branch,” the YPG said it would continue its resistance, targeting rebel forces backed by Turkey in Afrin.
The YPG General Command said on Saturday that the people of Afrin “have never given up the resistance against the Turkish occupation” despite forced immigration, ethnic cleansing, looting, theft, and mass killings.
On Sunday, the YPG said that they carried out several attacks on the Turkish army and affiliated rebel groups in Afrin, killing 11.
According to the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights (SOHR), members of the YPG carry out assassinations against rebel forces with sleeper cells and, in response, Turkish-backed rebels have carried out operations to search for these cells.
“They arrested several people and took them to their headquarters" on the charge of “operating as sleeper cells of the Kurdish forces”,” the SOHR reported last Monday.
According to SOHR, at least 98 attacks were carried out by the YPG against Turkish forces and Syrian rebel forces, through detonation of landmines and IEDs and targeting by missiles using shoulder-fired launchers.
"This resulted in the death of tens of fighters of the factions and the Turkish forces during targeting operations whose pace escalated in the past 3 months,” SOHR said.
According to SOHR, at least 1,542 Kurdish fighters, 609 Syrian rebels, and 83 Turkish soldiers have been killed since Turkey launched its assault on January 20. The YPG, however, claims they have killed 2,541 Syrian rebels and Turkish soldiers in that time.
Analysts say the YPG has continued operations after the fall of Afrin in March to make it as difficult as possible for the Turkish army and rebel forces to control the region.
“There are Turkish forces in Afrin and the YPG views them as illegitimate and has maintained that it will punish those forces,” Aaron Stein, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, told Kurdistan 24.
“Afrin still isn’t stable after [Operation] Olive Branch, and there are worrying signs that an insurgency is taking hold.”
Editing by John J. Catherine
Source: Kurdish forces kill three Turkish-backed rebels in Syria’s Afrin
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Turkish leader vows death penalty after bomb kills mom, baby
8/1/18 12:03 PM
ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey could move soon to reinstate the death penalty, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday while attending the funeral of a young mother and her infant son who were killed by a roadside bomb.
Turkish authorities have blamed Tuesday’s attack near the borders of Iran and Iraq on Kurdish rebels. They said the mother and child were targeted with an improvised explosive device on a road near the town of Yuksekova.
The 24-year-old woman was driving back from visiting her husband, a sergeant in the Turkish army, with her 11-month-old son. She died instantly, while the baby died in a hospital.
Erdogan, who flew to the central Turkish city of Sivas to attend the funeral, vowed to press ahead with the fight against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party “until the last terrorist remains.”
Responding to mourners’ shouts calling for the death penalty, Erdogan reiterated that he would not hesitate to approve capital punishment if Turkey’s Parliament passed a law authorizing it.
“The steps that we will take on the issue are close,” the president said.
Turkey has not executed anyone since 1984. The country abolished the death penalty in 2004 as part of its bid to join the European Union.
The rebels of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, have waged a three-decade old insurgency in Turkey’s mostly Kurdish southeast region. The conflict has killed tens of thousands of people.
The group is considered a terror organization by Turkey and its Western allies.
source :Turkish leader vows death penalty after bomb kills mom, baby
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8/1/18 12:03 PM
ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey could move soon to reinstate the death penalty, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday while attending the funeral of a young mother and her infant son who were killed by a roadside bomb.
Turkish authorities have blamed Tuesday’s attack near the borders of Iran and Iraq on Kurdish rebels. They said the mother and child were targeted with an improvised explosive device on a road near the town of Yuksekova.
The 24-year-old woman was driving back from visiting her husband, a sergeant in the Turkish army, with her 11-month-old son. She died instantly, while the baby died in a hospital.
Erdogan, who flew to the central Turkish city of Sivas to attend the funeral, vowed to press ahead with the fight against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party “until the last terrorist remains.”
Responding to mourners’ shouts calling for the death penalty, Erdogan reiterated that he would not hesitate to approve capital punishment if Turkey’s Parliament passed a law authorizing it.
“The steps that we will take on the issue are close,” the president said.
Turkey has not executed anyone since 1984. The country abolished the death penalty in 2004 as part of its bid to join the European Union.
The rebels of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, have waged a three-decade old insurgency in Turkey’s mostly Kurdish southeast region. The conflict has killed tens of thousands of people.
The group is considered a terror organization by Turkey and its Western allies.
source :Turkish leader vows death penalty after bomb kills mom, baby
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The Turkish air force attacked the Kurds in Iraq
Ankara’s actions criticized US and European Union.
The Turkish air force in Northern Iraq carried out an air operation in the killing of 10 Kurds, whom Ankara considers “terrorists”, told the General staff of the Armed forces.
It is noted that the airstrike occurred in the area of Mutiny, where 10 were killed members of Kurdish armed groups.
In the North of Syria Turkey is “operation Olive branch” against Kurdish “people’s protection Units” (OEF). OEF are part of the “Syrian democratic forces”, which was a key partner of the International coalition led by the US in the fight against ISIL militants in Syria. Turkey also claims that is fighting against ISIS and other terrorists in the district of Afrin.
ONS directly linked to the “Kurdistan workers ‘party”, which the Turkish authorities have declared a terrorist organization in the country and the struggle against it for several decades. Also in early June, Turkish troops launched an operation against the Kurds in Northern Iraq.
source :The Turkish air force attacked the Kurds in Iraq - micetimes.asia
Ankara’s actions criticized US and European Union.
The Turkish air force in Northern Iraq carried out an air operation in the killing of 10 Kurds, whom Ankara considers “terrorists”, told the General staff of the Armed forces.
It is noted that the airstrike occurred in the area of Mutiny, where 10 were killed members of Kurdish armed groups.
In the North of Syria Turkey is “operation Olive branch” against Kurdish “people’s protection Units” (OEF). OEF are part of the “Syrian democratic forces”, which was a key partner of the International coalition led by the US in the fight against ISIL militants in Syria. Turkey also claims that is fighting against ISIS and other terrorists in the district of Afrin.
ONS directly linked to the “Kurdistan workers ‘party”, which the Turkish authorities have declared a terrorist organization in the country and the struggle against it for several decades. Also in early June, Turkish troops launched an operation against the Kurds in Northern Iraq.
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Turkish policeman killed in PKK attack
Sat Aug 4, 2018 04:31PM
Turkish soldiers block the road at a military check point in Diyarbakir on June 26, 2016. (Photo by AFP)
A Turkish police officer has been killed and eight others have been injured in an attack blamed on the militants of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in southeastern Turkey.
The PKK militants detonated an improvised explosive device on Saturday as a police vehicle was passing through an area in Hakkari province, Turkey's state-run Anadolu Agency reported.
PKK militants regularly clash with Turkish forces in the Kurdish-dominated southeast of Turkey attached to northern Iraq.
Turkey, along with the European Union and the United States, has declared the PKK a terrorist group and has banned it. The militant group has been seeking an autonomous Kurdish region since 1984.
A shaky ceasefire between the PKK and the Turkish government collapsed in July 2015. Attacks on Turkish security forces have soared ever since.
Over the past few months, Turkish ground and air forces have been carrying out operations against the PKK positions in the country as well as in northern Iraq and neighboring Syria.
More than 40,000 people have been killed during the three-decade conflict between Turkey and the autonomy-seeking militant group.
Sat Aug 4, 2018 04:31PM
A Turkish police officer has been killed and eight others have been injured in an attack blamed on the militants of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in southeastern Turkey.
The PKK militants detonated an improvised explosive device on Saturday as a police vehicle was passing through an area in Hakkari province, Turkey's state-run Anadolu Agency reported.
PKK militants regularly clash with Turkish forces in the Kurdish-dominated southeast of Turkey attached to northern Iraq.
Turkey, along with the European Union and the United States, has declared the PKK a terrorist group and has banned it. The militant group has been seeking an autonomous Kurdish region since 1984.
A shaky ceasefire between the PKK and the Turkish government collapsed in July 2015. Attacks on Turkish security forces have soared ever since.
Over the past few months, Turkish ground and air forces have been carrying out operations against the PKK positions in the country as well as in northern Iraq and neighboring Syria.
More than 40,000 people have been killed during the three-decade conflict between Turkey and the autonomy-seeking militant group.
Turkey: 44 PKK 'terrorists' neutralized over past week
Security forces carry out 2,451 counter-terror operations across Turkey from July 30 to Aug. 6, says Interior Ministry
ANKARA
At least 44 PKK terrorists have been "neutralized" as part of anti-terror operations across Turkey over the past week, the country’s Interior Ministry said on Monday.
Turkish authorities often use the word "neutralized" in their statements to imply that the terrorists in question either surrendered or were killed or captured.
In a statement, the ministry said the Turkish Armed Forces carried out 2,451 ground and air operations from July 30 to Aug. 6.
The ministry said 25 of the terrorists were killed, 10 captured, and nine others surrendered to authorities.
During the operations, 152 people were arrested for allegedly aiding and abetting the PKK terrorist group and 21 others for their suspected links to the Daesh terrorist group.
In its more than 30-year terror campaign against Turkey, the PKK -- listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the U.S. and the EU -- has been responsible for the death of some 40,000 people, including women and children.
Also, another 334 people were arrested for suspected links to the Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETO), the group behind the July 2016 defeated coup, which martyred 251 people and injured nearly 2,200, and four others were arrested for their links to leftist terrorist groups, in the past week.
Security forces also destroyed three terrorist shelters, including several caves, and seven improvised explosives during operations in the eastern and southeastern provinces of Erzurum, Hakkari, and Adiyaman, the statement said.
In addition, security forces seized 13 hand grenades, 23 assorted weapons, and 4,484 rounds of ammunition.
During the operations, security forces also arrested 511 suspects for crimes linked to terrorism, and 98 others for human trafficking, while 2,798 people were held for crimes linked to drugs and smuggling.
Additionally, 2,376 anti-drug and contraband operations arrested 409 suspects, the statement read.
The raids also led to the seizure of 872 kilograms (1,922 lb.) of heroin, some 2.23 million pills or other forms of illegal drugs, and over 43 tons of smuggled oil.
Security forces carry out 2,451 counter-terror operations across Turkey from July 30 to Aug. 6, says Interior Ministry
ANKARA
At least 44 PKK terrorists have been "neutralized" as part of anti-terror operations across Turkey over the past week, the country’s Interior Ministry said on Monday.
Turkish authorities often use the word "neutralized" in their statements to imply that the terrorists in question either surrendered or were killed or captured.
In a statement, the ministry said the Turkish Armed Forces carried out 2,451 ground and air operations from July 30 to Aug. 6.
The ministry said 25 of the terrorists were killed, 10 captured, and nine others surrendered to authorities.
During the operations, 152 people were arrested for allegedly aiding and abetting the PKK terrorist group and 21 others for their suspected links to the Daesh terrorist group.
In its more than 30-year terror campaign against Turkey, the PKK -- listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the U.S. and the EU -- has been responsible for the death of some 40,000 people, including women and children.
Also, another 334 people were arrested for suspected links to the Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETO), the group behind the July 2016 defeated coup, which martyred 251 people and injured nearly 2,200, and four others were arrested for their links to leftist terrorist groups, in the past week.
Security forces also destroyed three terrorist shelters, including several caves, and seven improvised explosives during operations in the eastern and southeastern provinces of Erzurum, Hakkari, and Adiyaman, the statement said.
In addition, security forces seized 13 hand grenades, 23 assorted weapons, and 4,484 rounds of ammunition.
During the operations, security forces also arrested 511 suspects for crimes linked to terrorism, and 98 others for human trafficking, while 2,798 people were held for crimes linked to drugs and smuggling.
Additionally, 2,376 anti-drug and contraband operations arrested 409 suspects, the statement read.
The raids also led to the seizure of 872 kilograms (1,922 lb.) of heroin, some 2.23 million pills or other forms of illegal drugs, and over 43 tons of smuggled oil.
At least 4,000 peoples killed in Turkish-PKK fight in the last 3 years
Security forces - 1,098
Civilians - 457
Youth of Unknown Affiliation - 223
PKK militants - 2,218
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Turkey's PKK Conflict: The Rising Toll
Security forces - 1,098
Civilians - 457
Youth of Unknown Affiliation - 223
PKK militants - 2,218
Take a look at the following url
Turkey's PKK Conflict: The Rising Toll
Former Kurdish MP from Turkey to appeal for asylum in Greece
TAGS: Turkey
A former MP for the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) in Turkey has expressed her intention to apply for asylum in Greece.
Leyla Birlik, 44, was arrested by Greek police in the northeastern border town of Orestiada on Wednesday for illegal entry to the country.
A prosecutor subsequently ordered her release until her asylum request has been examined.
In January 2017, a Turkish court banned Birlik from leaving the country on suspicion of involvement with the banned Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).
A year later, another court sentenced Birlik to 19 months in prison for “insulting the president” in 2015. Birlik was not present at the hearing and her lawyers said that they would appeal.
Former Kurdish MP from Turkey to appeal for asylum in Greece | Kathimerini
TAGS: Turkey
A former MP for the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) in Turkey has expressed her intention to apply for asylum in Greece.
Leyla Birlik, 44, was arrested by Greek police in the northeastern border town of Orestiada on Wednesday for illegal entry to the country.
A prosecutor subsequently ordered her release until her asylum request has been examined.
In January 2017, a Turkish court banned Birlik from leaving the country on suspicion of involvement with the banned Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).
A year later, another court sentenced Birlik to 19 months in prison for “insulting the president” in 2015. Birlik was not present at the hearing and her lawyers said that they would appeal.
Former Kurdish MP from Turkey to appeal for asylum in Greece | Kathimerini
Video, Kurdish snipers targeting Turkish Soldiers
Çalakiyên Sûîkastê, Girê Lêlkan, Başûrê Kurdistanê, 7 û 10’ê Tîrmehê
That helmet may have saved soldier's life
. That was one heck of a head shot.
Çalakiyên Sûîkastê, Girê Lêlkan, Başûrê Kurdistanê, 7 û 10’ê Tîrmehê
That helmet may have saved soldier's life
. That was one heck of a head shot.Video, Kurdish ATGM attack on Turkish Military truck. Causalities suffered
URL of Video: Çalakiya Girê Xwedê, Barzan, Başûrê Kurdistanê - 17.08.2018
URL of Video: Çalakiya Girê Xwedê, Barzan, Başûrê Kurdistanê - 17.08.2018
Video, Kurdish Ambush of Turkish Military truck. Causalities suffered.
Link of video : Çalakiya Serê Kanî, Agirî- Bazîd, 31’ê Çileyê 2018
Link of video : Çalakiya Serê Kanî, Agirî- Bazîd, 31’ê Çileyê 2018
She'll never make it out of the asylum centre alive. Too many Muslims.Former Kurdish MP from Turkey to appeal for asylum in Greece
TAGS: Turkey
A former MP for the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) in Turkey has expressed her intention to apply for asylum in Greece.
Leyla Birlik, 44, was arrested by Greek police in the northeastern border town of Orestiada on Wednesday for illegal entry to the country.
A prosecutor subsequently ordered her release until her asylum request has been examined.
In January 2017, a Turkish court banned Birlik from leaving the country on suspicion of involvement with the banned Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).
A year later, another court sentenced Birlik to 19 months in prison for “insulting the president” in 2015. Birlik was not present at the hearing and her lawyers said that they would appeal.
Former Kurdish MP from Turkey to appeal for asylum in Greece | Kathimerini