Owen Matthews, Newsweek: Turkey's Risky War With the Kurds
Toward the end of July, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan went to war. On his orders, 40 jets pounded strongholds in northern Iraq belonging to Kurdish separatists, killing at least 190 militants, according to the Turkish military. Turkish police also rounded up 1,050 terrorist suspects in raids all over the country—some of them supporters of ISIS and radical leftist groups, but over 80 percent of them suspects linked to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK. At the same time, Kurdish militants ambushed army vehicles, shot policemen on the streets of Turkish cities and bombed police stations, killing at least 13 in the bloodiest fortnight of Turk-Kurd violence in decades.
Just months after Erdogan came within a whisker of striking a grand peace deal with the Kurds, which would have ended a 30-year-old insurgency in southeast Turkey that has claimed nearly 40,000 lives, the war is on again. “It’s not possible for us to continue the peace process with those who threaten our national unity and brotherhood,” Erdogan said as he announced the airstrikes in retaliation for PKK attacks on Turkish soldiers.
Turkey - Kurd War -- News Updates August 4, 2015
Turkey, Kurdish rebels appear to mobilize for return to days of all-out conflict -- AP
Three Turkish soldiers killed in attack blamed on Kurds -- Deutsche Welle
Report: Kurdish jets attack PKK targets in southeast Turkey -- AP
Turkish Public Fears Jihadists More Than Kurds -- VOA
EU, US Call for Turkish Restraint Against Kurds -- VOA
EU concern over Turkish response to PKK attacks -- Al Arabiya/AFP
U.S., Turkey Agree to Keep Syrian Kurds Out of Proposed Border Zone -- WSJ
Kurds slam Turkey ‘safe zone’ -- Al Arabiya
US does not condemn Turkish attacks on PKK -- RUDAW
Turkish raids raise Iraqi Kurdish leadership stakes -- AFP
Kurdish Leader Demirtas Blames Turkey’s Government for Violence -- Bloomberg
These 5 Stats Explain Turkey’s War on ISIS — and the Kurds -- Ian Bremmer, Time
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