Sunday, August 5, 2012

Huge Battle Between Turkish Soldiers and Kurdish Rebels Leaves 19 Dead

 PKK fighters stand near the Qandil mountains near the Iraq-Turkish border.The PKK, considered a terrorist organisation by Turkey and much of the international community. — File Photo by Reuters

Things are heating up along the Turkey-Iraq border as Kurdish rebels, last night, attacked a military post - the ensuing battle killed 19 - six Turkish soldiers, 11 Kurds and some local police.

I personally don't go along with the label of the Kurdish rebels or PKK as a terrorist organization - I've always sided with the Kurds and we saw during the Iraq War that America could trust the Kurds where the other factions in the country, we could not.  Plus, I have no love lost for Turkey - never have, never will.  I've always wanted their filth out of NATO, I don't care how strategic their location is.

The story comes from DAWN.



Fighting in southeast Turkey kills 19: governor


ANKARA: Fighting between Turkish soldiers and outlawed Kurdish rebels killed 19 people in the southeast of the country on Sunday, the local governor told the Anatolia news agency.

Six soldiers, two village guards and 11 Kurdish rebels were killed following an overnight rebel attack on an army post in a village in Hakkari province which borders Iraq, the governor Orhan Alimoglu said.

Another 15 soldiers were wounded.

The raid on the army post follows similar assaults in the Kurdish-dominated southeast which have prompted the army to launch an all-out offensive against Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) bases in the area.

The Turkish ground and air operation, one of the biggest in years, was launched about two weeks ago to drive out the rebels in the town of Semdinli, also in Hakkari province.

About 2,000 soldiers are involved in the offensive, private NTV television reported Sunday.

“A serious and strong operation is under way in Semdinli,” Deputy Prime Minister Besir Atalay said last week.

The PKK, considered a terrorist organisation by Turkey and much of the international community, took up arms in Kurdish-majority southeast Turkey in 1984, sparking a conflict that has claimed some 45,000 lives.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Wonder how Turkey is making out now it does not have ISraeli drones working for them anymore. Seems like more dead turks. Of coruse Erdodoggie could simply back down and scrap this apology crap and compensation for teh nione dead terrorists he let sail on teh marmara. Look good on teh Turks though