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| Turkish PM pledges fierce response to PKK attacks that killed at least 12, wounded 302 | ||
| 2016-08-19 | ||
| [Hurriyet] Turkish PM Binali Yildirim has pledged a fierce response to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which has accelerated attacks on both security forces and civilians, killing at least 12 people and injuring hundreds of others in three separate attacks in less than 24 hours. "Terror will not take over ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... ," said Yildirim, who secured full support from the country’s main opposition party. "This nation will never surrender to any terrorist organization," he said. "The terrorist organization has lost its chain of command. It is staging suicide kabooms wherever it can," Yildirim said in the eastern province of Elazig, where he was accompanied by Interior Minister Efkan Ala, Defense Minister Fikri Isik, Health Minister Recep Akdag and Chief of General Staff Gen. Hulusi Akar. "Elazig won’t collapse with this attack. The terrorist organization won’t find the right to live anywhere. We have raised the alarm level," he added.
... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world... , the U.S.-based preacher and main suspect behind the July 15 coup attempt. "This nation cannot be defeated. This nation cannot be demolished," said Erdogan. Three officers were killed and 217 people, including 85 coppers and 60 civilians, were maimed in a PKK attack in Elazig early on Aug. 18. Some 72 of those maimed have been discharged from hospitals while 14 remained in a critical condition. Two of them are coppers. Initial footage showed severe damage to the building. The blast also created a hole in the scene. A bomb-laden car coming from the west exploded while in transit in front of the building, CNN Turk has reported. Meanwhile, ...back at the palazzo, Count Guido stepped from behind the suit of armor, rapier in hand. Ciccolini snarled and reached for his own weapon... one police officer and two non-combatants were killed, while 73 more were maimed, in a car kaboom in the Ipekyolu district of the eastern province of Van
Five soldiers and one village guard were killed and six soldiers were maimed on Aug. 18 in a PKK attack in the Hizan district of the eastern province of Bitlis, Dogan News Agency reported. PKK murderous Moslems detonated a hand-made explosive placed on a road near the Gayda village during the passing of a military vehicle at around 1 p.m, killing five soldiers and wounding five others. Village guard Muslum Yaldiz was killed and one soldier was maimed during festivities with PKK murderous Moslems in the rural areas of Nazar village. The main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) also sent a three-person delegation to Elazig. "I make an open call to the government," said CHP leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu. "We are ready to give you whatever you expect from the government to bring an end to terror. I have given whatever you asked for until today. But we have just one expectation from the government: Please solve this terror issue." "Turkey is rapidly being dragged into ambiguity," the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) said in a statement, calling for a return to talks between the state and the PKK. "What we are going through every day makes us long for yesterday. We are deeply concerned and saddened by recent incidents happened today in Elazig, a few days ago in Van and Diyarbakir," it said. "Today, the expansion of democratic political channels is an urgent need. We, as the Peoples’ Democratic Party, are determined to do our part to stop recent incidents before they create more social unrest. The resolution to the long-standing Kurdish question must not be delayed any longer," it said. | ||
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