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Subscribe to RSSWith all that has been happening in Libya, Syria, Israel, Gaza and beyond these past few days, very little international attention has been focused on a renewal of the conflict between Turkey and PKK Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq, which flared up on August 17 when the PKK attacked Turkish forces in the border region.
Very few pictures have emerged of the subsequent bombing raids carried out by Turkish warplanes inside Iraqi territory, but these are some of the related images that have moved on the wires in recent days.
Reuters
Women mourn after shelling by Turkish warplanes that killed seven people in the northern town of Rania in Sulaimaniya province, Iraq, on August 22. The president of Iraq's Kurdish region on Monday condemned shelling by Turkish warplanes that killed seven Iraqis.
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A collapsed building is seen in Dahuk province, northern Iraq on August 20 after Turkish warplanes backed by heavy artillery struck Kurdish guerrilla targets.
Bulent Kilic / AFP - Getty Images
Turkish plain-clothes policemen hold a pro-Kurdish demonstrator during a protest against Turkish air strikes over northern Iraq, in Istanbul, Turkey, on August 21.
Adem Altan / AFP - Getty Images
A funeral procession follows the coffin of major Yavuz Basayar during a ceremony in Ankara, Turkey, on August 19. Kurdish rebels killed eight Turkish soldiers, including Basayar, and a village guard on August 17 in an ambush in the southeast of the country.
The AP reports from ANKARA, Turkey:
Turkey's military said Tuesday air strikes on suspected Kurdish rebel targets in northern Iraq this week have killed an estimated 90 to 100 guerrillas and warned that it would press ahead with offensives against the group both inside Turkey and across the border.
The military said in a statement posted on its website that than 80 separatist rebels were injured in six days of cross-border air raids that began on Wednesday, hours after eight soldiers and a government-paid village guard were killed in an ambush by the Kurdistan Workers'
Party , or PKK, near the border with Iraq. Continue reading.
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Just seems to me...the more US media pays attention to these clowns in the Mid East, the more they seem to flare up. Get them out of there as well, this TV show is getting old now.
Some of us like being informed by what is going on in the world. Stick your head in the sand if you want, but don't speak for me. Ignorance is nothing to be proud of.
'Just Another American' that doesn't know their world history. The Turks have been fighting the Iraqi's/Iranians (actually Sunnis and Shias) and the Kurds for hundreds of years. The Turks actually controlled all of Iran/Iraq from the 16 century until the British took it over after WWI. The Kurds are actually the only ethnic group that have no country to call their own - which is what they are fighting for in northern Iraq.
this is real life for some people...
Turks have been getting away with genocides. First it was Armenians. Now it is Kurds, though they are Muslims.
When these people fight, then it becomes fighting "rebels."
While the Muslim nations fight the “rebels,” one forgets about sovereignty, human rights, women, children and all the big words we hear!
When the US and NATO forces attack Paki forces or any other non-Muslim nation, some open their big manuals start barking about “sovereignty”, ICC and so on.
Kurds need their own homelands just like other Muslims who want a homeland if they form more than 10 percent in a non-Muslim nation.
The reason you think its "getting old now" is because you dont actually care
The Kurds have been set upon by both the Turks and Iraqi. They have been trying to gain their Independence for a very long time. Sadam tried to take them out but failed. Remember when the US chased the Iraqis out of Kuwait?
And one more thing, the US had air bases in Turkey at that time too.
I'm former military and this back and forth has been going on for decades with the US and NATO turning their heads the other way. Both sides are guilty of war crimes, moreso the Turkish military for not clearly differentiating between civilian women and children versus armed fighters. Its ethnic cleansing, always has been. Revoke Turkey's NATO membership, and treat them like the backwards people they are--they aren't ready for civilization.
Kurds deserve their own homeland with Kurdish regions of Syria, Iraq, Turkey and Iran.
Kurdish region in Iraq is oil rich. Kurds will have have their Kurdistan the moment NATO forces withdraw after some bloody civil wars.
It will be good for the US, British and allies to support Kurds. It will be too many birds in one shot!
WASHINGTON (AFP) — The Lakota Indians, who gave the world legendary warriors Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, have withdrawn from treaties with the United States, leaders said Wednesday.
"We are no longer citizens of the United States of America and all those who live in the five-state area that encompasses our country are free to join us," long-time Indian rights activist Russell Means told a handful of reporters and a delegation from the Bolivian embassy, gathered in a church in a run-down neighborhood of Washington for a news conference.
Jonathan-1982062 so why dont you give them their own land, if people think everybody needs to get some land, for any reason. i think native Americans deserve it the most.
Kate-3955298, it is hard to distinguish, because the terrorist group will hide out in villages and shhot up the local police headquarters and go back home,
Genocide?? in the last 40 years more than 30 thousand people have been killed majority of them by KURDISH terrorist killing KURDISH people, because they will not fight against their own government. KURDISH terrorists have wiped out whole villages because the men of the village wont take up arms,
so when USA gives native americans their land back and help the Turkmeni in Iraq from getting massacared from Kurdish people, then you would have the right to make decision for other people. ( Turkmen in Northern Iraq have been killed, forced to move, and attacked by the KURDs to make sure they control the Northern Region of Iraq)
Why is Turkey allowed to run wild...this latest action is trampling on the graves of ALL the brave Americans who have died to bring freedom to Iraq...Turkey is a fascist state that has killed or removed millions of Kurds,Greeks and Armenians..they continue to occupy Northern Cyprus and Greek Ionia. America must stop following the failed policies of the British Empire...support the creation of Greater Kurdistan and the restoration of ALL Greek provinces!!! As for Turkey as an "ally"...they were on the other side in WWI...stayed out of WWII..when needed most...and demonstrate a complete lack of respect for basic human rights as excemplified by their refusal to allow the remaining Christians of Constantinople to train priests or educate their children!!!
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