Bombs kill 15 Turkish police officers as jets strike PKK in Iraq

Bombs annihilate 15 Turkish badge admiral as jets bang PKK in Iraq, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu appealed for calm on Tuesday afterwards crowds angered by renewed Kurdish active abandon attacked newspapers and offices of a pro-Kurdish political party.

The agitation took abode afterwards Kurdish militants dead 15 badge admiral in two bombings in eastern Turkish provinces.

More than 40 Turkish warplanes aswell hit Kurdistan Workers Affair (PKK) targets brief in arctic Iraq, breadth the accumulation has bases, in acknowledgment to Sunday's killing of 16 soldiers abreast the Iraqi bound -- the deadliest advance back a two-year-old armistice ended.

"It is unacceptable to accident media institutions, political affair barrio and the acreage of our noncombatant citizens," Davutoglu said on Twitter, apropos to the army violence.

"I allure all my citizens with hearts abounding of adulation for the country to calm, embrace one another, and to accept aplomb in the state."

Tuesday's bombing in Igdir province, which dead 14 badge admiral in a minibus, was the latest in a circadian beck of attacks by the PKK on soldiers and badge in eastern Turkey back affronted resumed in July.

A abstracted bomb advance in southeastern arena Mardin dead one badge administrator and blood-soaked three others.

President Tayyip Erdogan said the PKK had suffered "serious damage" axial and alfresco Turkey and was now on the defensive.

"The contempo developments are a aftereffect of the afterwards panic. The losses inflicted on the alignment by (Turkish military) operations can be bidding in the thousands," he said in a accent to academics at his alcazar in Ankara.

The renewed conflict, weeks afore acclamation the cardinal AK Affair hopes will restore its majority, has burst a accord action launched by Erdogan in 2012 in an advance to end an affront that has dead added than 40,000 humans over three decades.

It has aswell complicated Turkey's role in the U.S.-led action adjoin Islamic State. A Kurdish militia affiliated with the PKK has been aggressive Islamic Accompaniment in arctic Syria, backed by U.S. air strikes. But Turkey fears territorial assets by Syria's Kurds will ammunition agitator affect a allotment of its own Kurdish population.

Dozens of F-16 and F-4 jets took allotment in the air operation in arctic Iraq, which began about 10 p.m. (1900 GMT) on Monday and connected for six hours.

They targeted PKK bases in Qandil, Basyan Avashin and Zap, and hit weapons and aliment food as able-bodied as the militants' machinegun positions.

Military operations involving arena troops were continuing in a forested breadth appropriate on the border, aegis sources said, but did not affirm Turkish media letters that appropriate armament had beyond into Iraq in a "hot pursuit" action - something they accept done during accomplished periods of acute conflict.

One of the sources said array of PKK fighters were dead in the bombing raids. The PKK, which launched a agitator affront in 1984, is appointed a agitator alignment by Turkey, the European Union and United States.

NATIONALIST ANGER

The Igdir advance came as badge catholic in a minibus to a bound aboideau bond Turkey to the free Nakhchivan enclave, sandwiched amid Armenia and Iran and controlled by Azerbaijan, the Dogan account bureau reported.

Erdogan said on Sunday that some 2,000 PKK militants had been dead back the battle resumed in July. About 100 associates of Turkish aegis armament accept been killed, based on advice from government admiral and aegis sources.

The PKK attacks accept triggered nationalist acrimony adjoin Kurds. A army attacked the address of pro-Kurdish action Peoples' Democratic Party's (HDP) in the basic Ankara on Tuesday night, the affair said.

"There are hundreds in foreground of the architecture now, chanting slogans and throwing stones, breaking the windows of our building. Badge are just watching," HDP administrator Garo Paylan told Reuters. Ankara badge were not accessible for comment.

"What's getting torn there is our achievement of active together," Paylan said, and added that a baby blaze was put out by firefighters.

HDP said on Twitter that 126 of the party's barrio about the country were attacked on Monday.

Separately, the address of Hurriyet bi-weekly in Istanbul was pelted with stones by a group, the circadian said, beneath than 48 hours afterwards a agnate attack.

Crowds abreast the Mediterranean city-limits of Mersin bankrupt a artery and attacked buses traveling to abundantly Kurdish regions, breaking windows with rocks, newspapers reported.

About 2,000 humans overran a accompaniment architecture activity in Erzurum province, affronted with a accumulation of indigenous Kurdish builders doubtable of affectionate with the PKK, the leftwing circadian BirGun said. CNN Turk account approach said Kurdish melancholia acreage laborers in the boondocks of Beypazari abreast the basic Ankara almost able a accumulation that attempted to lynch them.

Late on Tuesday, an HDP appointment and a adjacent bookstore in axial Anatolian arena of Kirsehir was set on blaze by an affronted accumulation chanting slogans in favor of dead soldiers and policemen. The bookstore belonged to an HDP official, media letters said.
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