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| Kurdish militia in Syria accuses Turkey of "provocative" attacks |
| 2015-08-02 |
| [IN.REUTERS] Kurdish militia fighting 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.... in Syria accused ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... on Saturday of targeting it at least four times in the past week, calling the attacks provocative and hostile. Turkey began a campaign of air strikes on Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) camps in northern Iraq and Islamic State fighters in Syria last Friday, in what Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has called a "synchronised fight against terror". The campaign has raised suspicions among Kurds that Ankara's real agenda is checking Kurdish territorial ambitions rather than fighting Islamic State. The president of Iraq's Kurdistan region on Saturday condemned Turkey's bombardment of Zargala, a village there which he said had killed civilians, and called for a return to the grinding of the peace processor between Ankara and the PKK. Turkey's foreign ministry said the allegations would be investigated in a joint inquiry with the government of Iraq's Kurdistan. "It is known that there are no civilians in the Zargala terrorist camp but senior PKK members were present during the air strikes," the ministry said in a statement. "Meanwhile it is a fact that the terrorist organization unfortunately uses civilians as human shields," it said. The Syrian Kurdish YPG said in a statement on its website that it came under cross-border fire on four occasions in the past week and described sightings of Turkish jets over northern Syria. |
| Posted by:Fred |