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PKK co-leader refutes Turkey's casualty claims
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... has left hundreds of government troops dead and killed 30 members of the Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK), including eight civilians in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, the PKK co-leader claimed on Friday. "In the last 19 days of war against the Turkish army, 250 Turkish soldiers were killed and we have 30 deaders, including eight civilians who were killed in Zargali village," said Murat Karayilan, PKK co-leader and top commander, referring to a community at the base of the Qandil Mountains that was bombed on August 1. He accused Turkish government of breaking a peace deal with Kurds and said the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... 's battles against Kurds in Syria was a proxy war the bully boyz had been fighting on behalf of Turkey. "In 2013, Turkey announced a peace deal in Northern Kurdistan [Turkey], but it started war through ISIS in Western Kurdistan [Syria]," he said. Karayilan denied earlier claims by Turkish officials that at least 390 PKK rebels have been killed and 400 maimed in the attacks. Posted by: trailing wife 2015-08-16 |
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