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The Grand Turk
Friday's Turkey vs. PKK Adversarials
2015-08-15
One killed in clashes in Turkey's restive southeast

[AlAhram] A man was rubbed out as members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) clashed with Turkish security forces in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
's Kurdish-majority southeast, security sources said Friday.

The 40-year-old man was killed when he was caught in the crossfire of an armed clash between Turkish forces and the separatist PKK gunnies in the southeast city of Diyarbakir, the sources told AFP.

A 29-year-old man was also maimed during festivities that erupted overnight after youths linked to the outlawed PKK opened fire with rifles at police attempting to clear a main road blocked by the bad boys.

Meanwhile,
...back at the bunker, his Excellency called a hurried meeting of his closest advisors. It was to be his last. They discussed the officers's efficiency rating system...
more than two thousand people erupted into the streets in Diyarbakir on Friday to protest the escalating cycle of violence that has left a 2013 ceasefire agreed by the PKK in tatters, an AFP news hound said.

According to an AFP toll, 31 members of the Turkish security forces have since died in attacks blamed on the PKK.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him...
on Friday vowed that Turkey would press on with its relentless campaign against Kurdish bad boys, saying the operations were not "temporary."

"You shall not think they are strong... They are doomed to fail," Erdogan told supporters in his ancestral hometown in Turkey's Black Sea Rize province.

Turkish authorities tossed in the slammer
Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up!
more than 1,700 suspects since late last month in police raids nationwide targeting suspected members of the PKK as well as IS and the Marxist Revolutionary People's Liberation Party Front (DHKP-C), state-run Anatolia news agency said.

On Friday, police detained at least 39 suspected turbans in raids in several Turkish cities including Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir, Anatolia said.

Six people killed, eight wounded in attacks in Turkey's southeast

[AlAhram] Six people were killed and eight maimed on Friday as violence between Kurdish forces of Evil and Turkish soldiers flared up again in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
's southeast, security sources and the military said.

Fighting between the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and the military has broken out almost daily over the last month. The PKK has been hitting military targets after Ankara resumed air strikes on PKK camps in northern Iraq in what it calls a "synchronised war on terror".

Friday's bloodshed came a day before the 31th anniversary of the PKK's first attacks. The group, deemed a terrorist group by both Washington and Ankara, has waged an insurgency for greater Kurdish autonomy that has left 40,000 dead. The latest violence has shelved a recent grinding of the peace processor with Ankara.

Three soldiers were killed and six maimed - one critically - in the southeastern province of Hakkari after PKK gunnies opened fire with long-range rifles and rocket launchers, the military confirmed in a statement. Security sources earlier put the corpse count at four soldiers.

In the eastern province of Bingol, a soldier was killed after a mine laid by murderous Moslems exploded remotely, the provincial governor's office said Two PKK fighters were killed during an operation in response to the attack.

In a separate incident, youths linked to the PKK opened fire with rifles at a police vehicle in the town of Nusaybin bordering Syria early on Friday, wounding two coppers, security sources said..
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