...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) released their conflicting number of annual fatality figures for 2022, with the ongoing conflict between the two spanning across borders and multiple operations.
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Soylu however did not elaborate whether the casualty statistics are limited to inside Turkey or also include bordering countries where anti-PKK operations are ongoing, including the Kurdistan Region and Syria.
The People’s Defense Forces (HPG), the armed wing of the PKK, claimed that 2,942
The conflict between Turkey and the PKK spans across several countries, including Turkey itself. Ankara pursues the Kurdish group on the basis that it threatens Turkey’s national security and has designated it as a terrorist organization.
The PKK is a Kurdish gang fighting for the increased political and cultural rights of Kurds in Turkey.
Turkey on November 20 launched Operation Claw-Sword targeting Kurdish positions of the People’s Protection Units (YPG) and the PKK in northern Syria and the Kurdistan Region from the skies. The operation, according to President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than there are in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really most important..., is a prelude to a looming ground offensive in those areas.
The YPG is the backbone of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a mostly-Kurdish force in Syria that fought the lion’s share of the battle against the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
(ISIS) and ultimately territorially defeated the terror group in 2019.
The aforementioned operation follows Operation Claw-Lock, which was launched by Turkey on April 18 with the goal of removing PKK fighters from the areas of Metina, Zap, Avashin, and Basyan in northern Duhok province along the
In October, PKK-affiliated Firat News Agency (ANF) published several videos purportedly showing
...have not been used since WWI except for in Iraq, by the late, unlamented Saddam Hussein and in Syria, but really, honest, not by the Syrian government. And in Germany in WWII, but that was against civilians. Lots of them, just one of many reasons Hitler's also late and unlamented except among devout Moslems...
, adding that Turkey has used banned bombs and chemical substances at least 2,476 times since April.
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More than 500 villages have been emptied in the Kurdistan Region over three decades of the Turkey-PKK conflict.