Posted on 11/21/2015 10:59:43 AM PST by Mariner
ANKARA (AFP) -
Turkish warplanes have carried out a new wave of air strikes on northern Iraq in the latest assault on suspected targets of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), the army said Saturday.
Shelters and supply points of the PKK in northern Iraq, including its Qandil mountain stronghold, in the raids late Friday, it said.
The military did not give further details but the state-run Anatolia news agency said the operation involved 22 fighter jets and that 23 targets were hit.
Turkey has for four months been waging a relentless campaign against the PKK in the country's southeast and in northern Iraq, while the group has ended a ceasefire it had declared in 2013.
The PKK has waged a three-decade insurgency that has claimed tens of thousands of lives, initially seeking independence for Kurdish-populated Turkey although now the focus has shifted to seeking greater rights for the Kurdish minority.
Turkey and Obama are furious with the Russians who are bombing the primary source of ISIS’ operating funds-—their stolen oil production facilities and the means they use to transport it to their buyers. And the buyers, of course, are the cronies of Turkey’s Islamist president Erdogan. The Kurds are making substantial inroads against ISIS on the ground and Erdogan and Obama want that to be hindered. All the preceding is, of course, IMHO.
Obama is traveling the World looking for Muslims to bring to the US
Obama is traveling the World looking for Muslims to bring to the US
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And bashing, to his international audience, conservative Republicans and others who are against open borders and the massive import of Muslims.
This is the area APOCALYPTAIC ISLAM says the great war between Islam and the great satin will occur....that includes Europe....Turkey’s Erdogan also believes this....and why he wanted a safe haven for refugees there....the man is one dangerous dude!..and he’s on a roll!
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Did we provide air cover for them so the Russians don’t protect the Kurds?
It seems like Turkey’s main concern is to kill our Kurdish allies.
Arm the Kurds, recognize Kurdistan.
Some Kurds need some batter than average SAMs.
“Turkey and Qatar to rid the world of the Strong men”
This the same Qatar that has a hereditary monarchy and is run as a strict wahabbist state?
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