Turkey’s role in the kinetic action against ISIS appears to be a cover for the extermination of the Kurdish people in Turkey. Erdogan is not letting a crisis go to waste as this second Turkish genocide is ignored by his good friend and ally, pResident Obama.
David DeGerolamo
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Turkey Airstrikes Target Kurdish Militants
Turkey’s military said Tuesday warplanes had carried out airstrikes against 17 Kurdish rebel targets in southeastern Turkey.
A statement said the strikes focused on the Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK) in Hakkari province, which borders Iraq and Iran.
The airstrikes follow deadly attacks Monday blamed on the PKK that killed nine people in neighboring Sirnak province and in Istanbul. Overnight, Kurdish rebels attacked a military post in Sirnak, killing a Turkish soldier.
Turkey has been bombing PKK targets in southeastern Turkey and northern Iraq since late July after announcing a new anti-terror offensive. Turkish forces also are targeting Islamic State militants across the border in Syria, but most of the raids have hit Kurdish positions.
Turkish newspapers have captured the unrest with bold headlines, with one saying, “Chaos,” and another, “Attacks come from everywhere.”
One Turkish security analyst, Nihat Ali Ozcan, said the violence is likely to extend for a while and is rooted in the country’s political fortunes.
