Turkey Air Strikes Kurds,Turkish fighter jets agitated out a new battery of cross-border air strikes aboriginal on Saturday adjoin Kurdish rebels in arctic Iraq, killing at atomic 55 rebels, according to the state-run Anatolia account agency.
The strikes by F-16 and F-4 jets targeted caves, houses and camps acclimated by the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), Anatolia said, citation bearding aegis sources.
"At atomic 55 to 60 terrorists" were asleep in the operation, which destroyed ammunition depots, the address added.
Turkish aegis armament and the banned PKK accept traded blaze on a abreast circadian base back a two-year-old armistice fell afar in backward July with Ankara's barrage of a two-pronged "anti-terror" abhorrent adjoin Islamic Accompaniment of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) fighters in Syria and Kurdish rebels in Iraq.
Around 150 soldiers and badge accept been asleep in PKK bombings and shootings back the acknowledgment to accessible action in June, compared with about 1,100 in the insubordinate camp, according to pro-government media.The PKK does not accord abstracts for its dead, authoritative it absurd to affirm the government's claims that it is inflicting huge losses.
More 'village guards' to be hired
With the tit-for-tat attacks assuming no assurance of abating in the run up to November 1 aldermanic elections, the government has appear affairs to addition a arguable pro-government "Village Guard" militia.Following instructions from our Prime Minister [Ahmet Davutoglu] we will acquaint for 5,000 'village guardians' in the press," Interior Minister Selami Altinok was quoted by Turkish media as saying.
Created appear the end of the 1980s to accommodate the PKK, the militia currently numbers about 70,000 men and women, who draw a government salary.
Human rights groups accept again alleged for the force, which has been attenuated by allegations of agitated abomination and biologic smuggling, to be disbanded.
Of the about 5,000 militia associates to accept been active in wrongdoing, alone 900 accept faced acknowledged action, according to official figures.
The action amid the accompaniment and PKK will yield centre date at an anti-terrorism assemblage in Istanbul on Sunday to be addressed by Erdogan.
The president's critics allege him of reigniting a three-decade action with the PKK to back-scratch nationalist abutment for the cardinal Justice and Development Party, which he aforetime led, in the accessible election.
Some 40,000 humans accept died back the PKK took up accoutrements in 1984 gluttonous an absolute accompaniment for Turkey's Kurdish minority. The rebels accept back refocused their demands on accepting greater freedom and cultural rights.
The strikes by F-16 and F-4 jets targeted caves, houses and camps acclimated by the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), Anatolia said, citation bearding aegis sources.
"At atomic 55 to 60 terrorists" were asleep in the operation, which destroyed ammunition depots, the address added.
Turkish aegis armament and the banned PKK accept traded blaze on a abreast circadian base back a two-year-old armistice fell afar in backward July with Ankara's barrage of a two-pronged "anti-terror" abhorrent adjoin Islamic Accompaniment of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) fighters in Syria and Kurdish rebels in Iraq.
Around 150 soldiers and badge accept been asleep in PKK bombings and shootings back the acknowledgment to accessible action in June, compared with about 1,100 in the insubordinate camp, according to pro-government media.The PKK does not accord abstracts for its dead, authoritative it absurd to affirm the government's claims that it is inflicting huge losses.
More 'village guards' to be hired
With the tit-for-tat attacks assuming no assurance of abating in the run up to November 1 aldermanic elections, the government has appear affairs to addition a arguable pro-government "Village Guard" militia.Following instructions from our Prime Minister [Ahmet Davutoglu] we will acquaint for 5,000 'village guardians' in the press," Interior Minister Selami Altinok was quoted by Turkish media as saying.
Created appear the end of the 1980s to accommodate the PKK, the militia currently numbers about 70,000 men and women, who draw a government salary.
Human rights groups accept again alleged for the force, which has been attenuated by allegations of agitated abomination and biologic smuggling, to be disbanded.
Of the about 5,000 militia associates to accept been active in wrongdoing, alone 900 accept faced acknowledged action, according to official figures.
The action amid the accompaniment and PKK will yield centre date at an anti-terrorism assemblage in Istanbul on Sunday to be addressed by Erdogan.
The president's critics allege him of reigniting a three-decade action with the PKK to back-scratch nationalist abutment for the cardinal Justice and Development Party, which he aforetime led, in the accessible election.
Some 40,000 humans accept died back the PKK took up accoutrements in 1984 gluttonous an absolute accompaniment for Turkey's Kurdish minority. The rebels accept back refocused their demands on accepting greater freedom and cultural rights.
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