Kikapu wrote:27 June 2012 / İBRAHIM ÇELIK, ŞANLIURFA
Syria, already experiencing tense relations with Turkey after downing a Turkish military jet last week, is turning a blind eye to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party’s (PKK) raising a Kurdistan flag in a Syrian town, disregarding the disturbance it would cause in Turkey.
The PKK has hoisted the flag in the Syrian town of Ayn-al Arab, close to Mürşitpınar village in Şanlıurfa’s Suruç district. The 15-meter-high flag, raised on a hill, is visible with the naked eye from Turkey.
There is a Syrian flag flying 200 meters away from the Kurdistan flag.
One resident of Mürşitpınar, N.Y., says that it is nothing less insolence towards Turkey for the flag to be flown on the highest hill in the region.
“From the outbreak of popular unrest in Syria we have already known that the terrorist organization was very close to us......
Oh really. That was when they found out the PKK was so close to them?
8 killed, 16 wounded in clashes in southeastern Turkeyhttp://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/8-kill ... sCatID=341ISTANBUL
Eight soldiers were killed and 16 more were wounded yesterday during clashes between security forces and members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in the southeastern province of Hakkari, daily Hürriyet reported.
Militants attacked military border posts with heavy weapons last night around 5 a.m. The first round of fire killed eight soldiers and wounded 16 more. Clashes continued as security forces were sent to the area.
Twelve soldiers were killed, 16 were wounded and eight were kidnapped in the same location near Dağlıca district in a similar attack in 2007.
Four soldiers killed in clashes with PKK http://www.todayszaman.com/news-284763- ... h-pkk.html27 June 2012 / TODAY’S ZAMAN, İSTANBUL
Four Turkish troops were killed in yet another skirmish in the southeastern province of Siirt on Wednesday as unremitting clashes between the military and the terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) stretch into the foreseeable future. The confrontations took place at two locations near the town of Eruh in Siirt province during the night and lasted for several hours.
A statement released by the Siirt Governor's Office said the PKK ambushed a commando unit that was returning to its barracks after an operation in the rural area of Milyanis near Eruh at night. One soldier was killed at the scene.
Three other soldiers, who were seriously injured and were taken to the hospital by military air ambulance, subsequently died while under care. The bodies of the four slain soldiers were sent to their hometowns from Diyarbakır Wednesday afternoon, following a military ceremony at the 3rd Diyarbakır Battalion Command. Meanwhile, security forces seized 300 kilograms of explosives hidden by PKK in Diyarbakır, indicating that a potentially disastrous terrorist attack was averted at the last minute.
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Additionally, a soldier was killed in a clash with the PKK in Hakkâri on Tuesday. When a gendarmerie unit located a group of terrorists in the rural area of the Yüksekova district in Hakkâri, an armed skirmish erupted that resulted in the soldier’s death.
Also on Tuesday, one Turkish soldier was injured in a clash with PKK terrorists.
The PKK, which has been fighting for autonomy in Turkey’s mainly Kurdish Southeast since 1984, has intensified its armed activities in the southeastern part of the country with the coming of spring.
So far, 40,000 people have died in the conflict. Dozens of PKK members have been killed recently in heavy clashes.
More than 10 soldiers were slain in battles with the terrorist organization over the past week.
