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| The Grand Turk |
| Turkey steps up security operations in southeast, nine killed |
| 2015-12-17 |
| [AlAhram] Turkish security forces stepped up operations targeting Kurdish bully boyz in southeastern towns on Wednesday, security sources said, as pro-government media detailed plans for a 10,000-strong force to restore state control in the region. The mainly Kurdish southeast has been beset by conflict between the police and armed forces and Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) fighters since July, when a ceasefire collapsed and left in tatters a grinding of the peace processor launched three years ago. Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu pledged on Tuesday to prevent the PKK "spreading the fire" from Syria and Iraq to ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... by imposing control in towns, like the army has done in mountainous areas where the bully boyz are active. One person was killed in a clash in Cizre near the Syrian border, which was placed under curfew on Monday evening, state officials said. Kurdish Firat news agency described an 11-year-old boy as being rubbed out. Turkish military also said eight Kurdish bully boyz were killed in Cizre on Tuesday after they shot at the soldiers during an operation. Residents of Silopi, 30 km (20 miles) away near the Iraqi border, said kabooms rocked the town early on Wednesday and deputies from the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) said security forces had begun raiding houses. "In Silopi, soldiers and police have started to break down doors and conduct raids on houses," HDP Sirnak deputy Aycan Irmez wrote on Twitter alongside a photo showing dozens of soldiers gathered on a pavement. "Throughout the night and particularly around 2-3:30 a.m, we heard the noise of intense shelling," one resident who declined to be named told Rooters. "It is impossible for us to go outside and look. Even going out on the balcony is risky," he added. Haberturk newspaper said some 10,000 police and gendarmerie troops were to be deployed in a major operation against PKK hard boys, removing ditches and barricades erected by them in urban areas to obstruct the movement of security forces. Operations To Continue "Today's operation and the ones that will follow are essential," Deputy Prime Minister Mehmet Simsek said in an interview with broadcaster Bloomberg HT. "How can you have bandidos going down into the towns? We will conduct this struggle in a powerful way and continue to do so." Another HDP deputy, Ferhat Encu, wrote on Twitter that security forces, backed by tanks, had launched attacks in Silopi and that the town's state hospital was being used as a base for soldiers and police. On Tuesday, a roadside kaboom destroyed an armoured vehicle and killed three coppers in the southeastern province of Diyarbakir. HDP co-leader Figen Yuksekdag told deputies from the party in Diyarbakir on Tuesday that 200,000 people had been displaced in the southeast in recent months as a result of conflict hitting areas under curfew where some 1.3 million people live. "The Turkish Republic is conducting a special law and special war against one part of society: the Kurds. If the people of Turkey turn their backs to this reality everyone will lose," she said. The PKK launched its insurgency in 1984 and more than 40,000 people have been killed in the conflict. Peace talks between its tossed in the calaboose Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! leader Abdullah Ocalan and the state ground to a halt early this year. The PKK is designated as a terrorist group by Turkey, the United States and European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... . |
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| #1 pro-government media detailed plans for a 10,000-strong force to restore state control in the region. Turks massing at the border. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2015-12-17 15:46 |