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| 2016-07-10 | |||
Kurd Kommies klaim kommander not killed
A spokesperson of the unknown Tel Hamis brigade told Anadolu Agency (AA) that Erdal’s car was blown up on Friday in Qamishli city in northeastern Syria, with his guards. The news was quickly denied by the PKK. "Our Commander Bahoz Erdal is on his duty in the mountains of Kurdistan," said Bahtiyar Dogan, the official spokesperson of the People’s Defence Forces (HPG), accusing the Turkish media of spreading lies. "We know that no one believes such false news. It’s obvious that these news are merely produced to hit the morale of our forces and interrupt their advance," he added. The only reported kaboom on Friday was one car of the Syrian Kurdish forces of the People’s Protection Units (YPG), that was damaged by exploding ammunition, injuring two members of the YPG, the local Kurdish police said in a statement. According to Ilhan Tanir, a Washington-based analyst and journalist specialized in Turkish politics, the Turkish government has repeatedly announced the death of Bahoz Erdal. "When you look at archives you can see about every year the similar ’breaking’ news out there [that Erdal is killed]. It is of course possible he has been indeed hit but just to be on the safe side it is better to wait for confirmation," he told ARA News. "It’s also important to remember that the AKP government desperately needs some kind of victory, real or imaginary. They need to change the news cycle for positive. Otherwise Turkish administration only makes headlines by their apologies, diplomatic defeats and security vulnerabilities. Turkish government needs some positive spin in news cycles even if it lasts only 24 hours," he concluded.
[ARA News] HASAKAH – At least 21 militants of the Islamic State (ISIS) were killed and dozens more wounded after clashes broke out between the group and Kurdish forces of the People’s Protection Units (YPG) in Hasakah province in northeastern Syria, military sources reported on Tuesday. “Clashes erupted when ISIS militants tried to infiltrate into the recently liberated town of Shaddadi in the southern countryside of Hasakah,” a YPG spokesman told ARA News. “Our [YPG] units responded to the attack with heavy weapons, killing and wounding dozens of Daesh terrorists,” the Kurdish official said, using another acronym for ISIS. The YPG media office reported the death of 21 ISIS militants, whose corpses were collected after the clashes stopped on Tuesday evening. It added that over 30 other militants were injured and some of them were taken by the YPG as hostages.
[ARA News] HASAKAH – The Syrian northeastern city of Hasakah witnessed heavy clashes between the Kurdish security forces of Asayish and pro-regime troops on Sunday midnight. At least one pro-regime fighter was killed, while two Kurdish female members of the Asayish security were injured in the Hasakah clashes. “The background of those clashes are unclear yet, but apparently the movements of the pro-Assad militiamen in the Kurdish districts of Hasakah have provoked the Asayish forces,” a local media activist told ARA News. An Asayish officer told ARA News that the pro-regime militiamen were trying to infiltrate into a Kurdish security checkpoint, which led to clashes between both sides. | |||
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