Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Turkey Launches Air Strikes Against Kurdish PKK Fighters



Turkish Warplanes Bomb Kurdish PKK -- Wall Street Journal

Strikes Jeopardize On-Going Peace Talks to End Insurgency in Turkey

ISTANBUL—Turkey’s warplanes and artillery repeatedly bombed camps of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party in the country’s southeast on Monday, marking the military’s first significant offensive against the PKK since peace talks started two years ago.

Attacks in the Hakkari province, on Turkey’s borders with Iran and Iraq, came in retaliation to repeated PKK harassment of military outposts, which have been drawing fire since Saturday, according to Turkey’s privately owned Dogan news agency.

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More News On Turkey Launching Air Strikes Against Kurdish PKK Fighters

Report: Turkish Jets Hit Kurdish Rebel Targets -- ABC News/AP
Turkish warplanes hit Kurdish militant targets in southeast: media -- Reuters
Turkey Army Hits PKK Targets as Unrest Over Kobani Deepens -- Bloomberg Businessweek
Turkish warplanes hit Kurdish rebels as tensions stoked by Islamic State fight -- Washington Post
Turkish Airstrike Hits Kurds, Complicating Fight Against Islamic State -- NYT
Turkey Attacks Kurdish Positions On Border With Iraq -- IBTimes
Turkey Bombs Anti-ISIS Kurds Inside Its Own Borders -- Slate
Turkey Bombs Kurdish PKK Positions -- Vice
Turkey bombs Kurdish PKK rebel positions, Kobani inaction threatens ceasefire -- RT
Turkey Joins the War! Wait…Against Its Own People? -- Bryan Preston, PJ Media
Turkey-PKK peace could collapse over Ankara's Kobani response -- Daily Star/Reuters

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