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At Least 69 Kurdish Fighters Reported Dead After Clashes in Southeast Turkey
Vice News ^ | December 19, 2015

Posted on 12/19/2015 9:08:00 AM PST by McGruff

Four days of clashes in southeast Turkey have reportedly killed at least 69 Kurdish militants and two members of the Turkish security forces. Turkish jets also reportedly bombed several Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) camps in northern Iraq on Friday, destroying shelters and fighting posts.

In July, a two-year ceasefire between Turkey and the militant PKK crumbled, triggering a relapse of violence in Kurdish territories in southeast Turkey and northern Iraq. More than 40,000 people have been killed since the Kurdish insurgency began in 1984, and the peace process recently fell apart after the PKK claimed responsibility for the fatal shootings of two Turkish police officers near the Syrian border city of Ceylanpinar.

Speaking in the southwestern city of Anatolia earlier this week, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed to continue ramping up military efforts to subdue the PKK. "You will be destroyed in the houses, apartments and trenches that you have dug," Erdogan said, according to local news outlets. "All the Turkish security forces, soldiers, police officers and voluntary village guards will continue to fight until everywhere in [the southeast] is cleansed [of PKK militants] and until an atmosphere of peace is ensured there. We will not stop! We will fight with the same determination."

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Our NATO ally.
1 posted on 12/19/2015 9:08:00 AM PST by McGruff
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To: McGruff

If anyone knows how to ethnically cleanse, it is Turkey

Our ally

Of course the Kurds are also our “ allies”

But hey Erdogan is a man obama and his saudi masters can do business with


2 posted on 12/19/2015 9:13:20 AM PST by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: McGruff

Our NATO ally.
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Yep, our ISLAMIST NATO ally.


3 posted on 12/19/2015 9:45:18 AM PST by House Atreides (Cruz or lose! Do TG & Boogieman have to be asses every day?)
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To: silverleaf

“If anyone knows how to ethnically cleanse, it is Turkey”

They’ve done it before, and they can do it again.


4 posted on 12/19/2015 9:55:21 AM PST by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day".)
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To: McGruff

Give the Kurds a boatload of Stingers. That should do it.


5 posted on 12/19/2015 12:51:02 PM PST by SgtHooper (Anyone who remembers the 60's, wasn't there!)
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To: SgtHooper

The US, actually try and stop ISIS? Please!! What is the Russian version of the Stinger? Putin needs to ship them those by the truck load.


6 posted on 12/19/2015 2:08:40 PM PST by nomad
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To: nomad
Putin is happy to let the Kurds get killed by the Turks -- give the Turks a black eye, and undermines the Kurds' ability to hang on to the parts of Syria they control. Russian troops are in Syria to help the murderer Assad, after all.

7 posted on 12/20/2015 12:50:59 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: McGruff
PKK: Kurdistan Workers Party.

Guess how they vote.

8 posted on 12/20/2015 1:16:26 AM PST by PLMerite (The Revolution...will not be kind.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Well I`ll take the Russian ally, the ‘murderer Assad’, any day of the week over the US`s ally ISIS.


9 posted on 12/20/2015 6:09:03 AM PST by nomad
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To: PLMerite

Well we know how these guys https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Standard#/media/File:Flag_of_Jihad.svg vote.


10 posted on 12/20/2015 6:11:23 AM PST by nomad
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