10/14/14, "Turkey 'bombs Kurdish rebels' as tensions rise over Isil advance," AFP via UK Telegraph
"Turkish jets reportedly launch first strikes this year on Kurdish rebels as anger increases over government's inaction against Isil [ISIS]."
"Turkish jets bombed targets in the southeast of Turkey where members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) are based, the first strikes on the outlawed group since a 2013 ceasefire, a security source said.
Turkish F-16
jets dropped bombs late on Monday on PKK targets in the village of
Daglica in the Kurdish-majority Hakkari province near the border with
Iraq, the source told AFP on condition of anonymity.
The
fierce clashes between Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) [ISIS]
insurgents and Kurdish forces in the key Syrian town of Kobane have
shaken Turkey's fragile peace process with the PKK, blacklisted as a
terrorist organisation by Ankara and much of the international
community.
Frustrated with Turkey's
lack of action to stop Isil's advance in northern Syria, Turkey's
Kurdish community has taken to streets in several cities in the
southeast over the past week, with scores killed in deadly clashes.
President
Recep Tayyip Erdogan blamed the unrest on the "dark forces" seeking to
sabotage the delicate peace process with the PKK to end 30 years of
violence that has claimed at least 40,000 lives.
.
The security source told AFP that the PKK had been
launching gun attacks on the police station in Daglica since Saturday
because of the troubles in Kobane.
The military action was in response to those attacks, it added."
Image: "Fierce clashes between Isil insurgents and Kurdish forces in the key Syrian town of Kobane (pictured) have shaken Turkey's fragile peace process with the PKK Photo: AFP/Getty Images"
The military action was in response to those attacks, it added."
Image: "Fierce clashes between Isil insurgents and Kurdish forces in the key Syrian town of Kobane (pictured) have shaken Turkey's fragile peace process with the PKK Photo: AFP/Getty Images"
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Map above from BBC
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"An F-4 Phantom jet: Turkey says the bombing was a response to a PKK attack on a military outpost." BBC
10/14/14, "Turkish jets bomb Kurdish PKK rebels near Iraq," BBC
"Turkish F-16 and F-4 warplanes have bombed Kurdish PKK rebel targets in Hakkari province near the Iraqi border, Turkish media report."...
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