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Turkey vows crackdown on Kurdish separatists
2006-07-17
Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday pledged there would be "major decisions" on a crackdown on Kurdish separatists after they killed eight security forces earlier in the day. Members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) killed seven Turkish soldiers and a village guard when they attacked security forces near the town of Eruh in southeast Turkey on Sunday, the semi-official Anatolian news agency said. "This PKK terror organisation has continued its attacks ruthlessly," Erdogan told his Justice and Development Party (AKP) officials in televised comments during a visit in eastern Turkey. "We have so far tried to be patient and solve the issue in a democratic manner. But yet again they killed eight children of ours. This is no longer bearable," he said.
Posted by:Fred

#4  You might want to reconsider that, Tayyip. The Peshmurga might start eating Syria any day now. I don't think you will want to attract attention if they do.
Posted by: mojo   2006-07-17 13:12  

#3  We have so far tried to be patient and solve the issue in a democratic manner.

That's a big lie. There is NO democracy in Turkey proper, but the situation is even worse in Kurdistan.

The pashas never should have said that Kurdish women and children were fair targets for TSK, but since they did, it makes one wonder exactly what NATO armies are all about.
Posted by: Azad   2006-07-17 12:02  

#2  Perv Jr.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2006-07-17 09:52  

#1  I wonder if these PKK, would like some of the AK47 & explossives that IDF took of Paleos?
Posted by: gromgoru   2006-07-17 09:37  

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