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| Turkish Soldier Killed in Syria Border Clash with Kurdish Rebels |
| 2016-02-11 |
| [AnNahar] One Turkish soldier was killed and another maimed in festivities with Kurdish rebels trying to cross the border from Syria into southeast ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , the military said Wednesday. Turkish security forces opened fire Tuesday on seven snuffies from the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in the Cizre district of Sirnak province as they were entering Turkey from Syria, the army said in a statement. Two soldiers were heavily maimed in the ensuing festivities and one of them later died in hospital, it added. Cizre has been under a controversial curfew for six weeks as the army pursues a relentless campaign against rebels of the PKK which activists claim has cost dozens of civilian lives. The town lies just across the border from an area in northern Syria that is controlled by the Syrian Democratic Union Party (PYD), which Ankara considers to be the affiliate of the outlawed PKK. The border incident came as Turkey's foreign ministry on Tuesday summoned the U.S. ambassador to Ankara John Bass after a US State Department front man angered Ankara by saying that Washington did not consider the PYD as a terrorist organization. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... had on Sunday urged Washington to choose between Turkey and the "terrorist" Syrian Kurds. The U.S.-led coalition fighting IS in Syria and Iraq has worked closely with the YPG, the military wing of the PYD, since it launched air strikes in Syria in September 2014. Turkey fears the creation of an autonomous Kurdish region in Syria -- similar to the Kurdish region in northern Iraq -- would spur the separatist ambitions of Turkey's own Kurds. |
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