Posted on 08/01/2015 4:39:47 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
Turkey has killed 260 Kurdish militants in a week-long air offensive on targets in northern Iraq, official media claimed Saturday, as regional Iraqi authorities said it was time the rebels pulled out with concerns growing over civilian casualties.
Ankara has launched a two-pronged "anti-terror" offensive against Islamic State (ISIS) jihadists in Syria and Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants based in northern Iraq after a wave of attacks inside Turkey.
But so far the bombardments have focused far more on the Kurdish rebels and a report by the official Anatolia news agency of 260 alleged PKK militants killed was the first concrete indication of the scale of the casualties.
The Turkish strikes against Kurdish forces come as critics say Ankara is using backlash against a massive ISIS suicide bombing late last month to crack down on the Kurds, in a move that comes after Western officials revealed Turkey has been cooperating with ISIS.
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Turkey is using its phony campaign against ISIS as a pretext to crush the Kurds in the region,
Erdogan has his “Reichstag Fire”.
I would rather have let the Soviets have Turkey.
The suicide bombing was against Kurds. Weird coincidence.
Didn’t realize that.
It was Erdogan’s version of the Reichstag fire.
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