Posted on 12/25/2015 11:21:03 PM PST by Mariner
Explosions and gunfire resounded around the southeastern Turkish town of Cizre on Friday after a clash overnight that the army said killed six Kurdish militants and one soldier, as a security operation there entered its 11th day.
Since a two-year ceasefire between Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants and Ankara fell apart in July, the mainly Kurdish southeast has been plunged back into a three-decades-old conflict which has killed more than 40,000 people.
A helicopter clattered overhead and armored vehicles sped along a hilltop road above Cizre, near the Syrian border, as security forces pressed on with a campaign across the region involving thousands of troops, backed by tanks.
Reuters TV footage showed smoke billowing from buildings hit by blasts, while streets were empty and shops shuttered.
The town, in Sirnak province, is the focus of what the government has described as an operation to "cleanse" the area of militants. But locals dispute that description and complain that the attacks are indiscriminate.
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I'm sure the Russians are giving them away to any Kurd that asks.
Aren’t the Kurds fighting against ISIS?
Why are we killing the people fighting ISIS?
There are Americans fighting alongside the Kurds:
http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/29/us/new-york-kurdish-militia-fighter/
Former military who wanted to go kill ISIS.
Hope our government isn’t backing Turkey in blowing up Americans.
We are not (I hope), but Turkey is.
Turkey supports ISIS along with the Saudis...in contrast with their protestations to the contrary.
This is the PKK. These PARTICULAR Kurds are Marxist. Whereas the Kurds fighting ISIS are mainly the Iraqi Peshmerga.
“This is the PKK. These PARTICULAR Kurds are Marxist. Whereas the Kurds fighting ISIS are mainly the Iraqi Peshmerga.”
Correct; anyway, the Kurds have their own news site for anyone really interested in finding out more:
PKK is listed as a terrorist group by the USA; but they probably should NOT be from what I can tell. Still, PKK uses the hammer and sickle as their symbol. Also, PKK has been kicked out of Iraqi Kurdistan by the ruling powers there; also, strangely enough, there were reports that Turkish forces were training and helping Kurds in Iraq near Mosul; but that could be erroneous information.
Proof that Erdogan is losing control. He has been playing with fire and is going to get burnt. Ceaucescue anyone?
Man, does it not seem like we are watching WW III igniting in slow motion?
World War 3 started in 1979. Slow motion indeed!
PPK are Kurds but they are the Marxist Kurds. I don’t really blame them for being Marxist, but that’s what they are. Iraq’s Kurds have historically and recently been on better terms with Turkey than with the PPK. It’s only recently that they’ve formed a truce to fight ISIS. There are factions of Kurds in Turkey who hate each other. That’s one of the reasons AKP keeps winning elections.
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