| inbluevt | Date: Wednesday, 2013/09/04, 11:15 PM | Message # 1 | DMCA |
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Turkish security forces killed more than 500 Kurdish rebels in southeast Turkey during the past month, according to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
"In operations held during the past month, some 500 terrorists were rendered ineffective in the region," said Erdogan during a televised interview on Monday, according to Agence France-Presse. He added that 123 rebel fighters were killed in the past 10 days alone, in a single offensive near the Iraqi border.
The clashes are part of an ongoing conflict between the Turkish government and the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, which has long fought for autonomy and continues to protest Turkey's detention of PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan, who was jailed in 1999.
Violence has increased markedly this summer. The turnaround has been blamed variously on the Syrian uprising next door, Erdogan's nationalist policies, the August anniversary marking the beginning of the PKK's militant campaign for sovereignty, and the Arab Spring revolutions that
have swept across the Middle East.
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| Scorpone | Date: Thursday, 2013/09/05, 12:35 PM | Message # 2 | DMCA |
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Good article, thx for post
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