Topic: Turkey´s Civil War: Fighting moving from rural areas to cities - page 5. (Read 4763 times)

Turkish foreign policy in the middle east for dummies

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Listen, Kurdish lives are also valuable. You are so concerned about the death of a few dozen or so Turkish soldiers, and at the same time you are completely ignoring the massacre of more than 1,000 ethnic Kurds (most of them civilians) by these same Turkish soldiers. Allow the Kurds to live peacefully in their own villages and you will no longer face rebellion from them.

erdogan trying to revenge Kurds.. for fighting and defeating his puppet ISIS terrorists.. There are no good guys on either side

The civil war has been ongoing for decades. It has ebbed and waned. It has seemed to be ramping up lately and to be moving from rural areas into cities. After ISIS became a big player in the neighborhood it then became an overt and covert ally against the Kurds in Iraq and Syria  and of course this spills into Turkey itself. It´s an escalation. Of course pissing off the russian bear in this situation was probably a terrible idea, unless Ankara wants them to support the Kurds and wants this escalation.

It would appear the psychopath Erdogan is going to get the civil war he has always wanted More ethnic cleansing coming your way via Turkey. It's their history!

Hundreds flee southeast Turkey warzone as 23 killed, curfew expanded in Kurdish Diyarbakir

Published time: 28 Jan, 2016 04:31

Hundreds of people have fled the mainly Kurdish city of Diyarbakir, located in southeastern Turkey, as authorities have extended the curfew there after 23 people were killed in street battles, including three Turkish soldiers and 20 Kurdish fighters.

Heavy gunfire continued on Wednesday in the ancient Sur district of Diyarbakir amid clashes between authorities and militants said to be members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which has been outlawed by Ankara, Turkish Dogan news agency reported.

Three Turkish soldiers were killed in Sur when militants fired on them with rifles and a rocket launcher, Reuters cited security sources as saying.

Turkey’s army also confirmed that it had killed 11 alleged PKK in the town of Cizre near the Syrian border, and nine others in Sur on Tuesday. The Turkish army claims it has killed 134 Kurdish fighters in the ancient Sur district since December. The district has also witnessed severe damage since then.

The 24-hour curfew zone has been extended to five more districts in Diyarbakir, according to the district governor’s office. The curfew bans residents from leaving their homes and forbids observers and reporters from entering the areas when clashes are taking place.

After alleged members of PKK reportedly dug trenches and set up explosive devices, the curfew was put in place “restore public order,” the district governor’s office said.

Local media reports estimate that more than 2,000 people left Sur following the fighting on Wednesday. People were seen fleeing with suitcases, bags, and bedding.

“Turkey’s state early in the morning started to warn people that they have to leave their houses. And right now thousands of people are trying to leave Sur district, the ancient part of the city,” Harun Ercan, a Diyarbakir resident, told RT.

“This armed conflict continues to create new tragedies and these people don’t know what to do. While these operations continue, gross human rights violations are committed by Turkey’s security forces,” Ercan added.

Turkish authorities have introduced curfews in several Kurdish-majority towns since the peace process with the PKK collapsed in the summer of 2015.

Clashes between Turkish forces and Kurdish PKK fighters have been ongoing since July. Turkey’s authorities maintain that all of those killed during the security operations in the country’s southeast have been PKK members.

READ MORE: No terrorists at the table? Turkey ‘threatens to withdraw’ from Syria talks over Syrian Kurds

However, the Turkish Human Rights Foundation reported that at least 198 civilians, including 39 children, have been killed in military operations in the area since August.

Kurds have long been campaigning for the right to self-determination and greater autonomy in Turkey, where they are the largest ethnic minority. In late December, a congress of Kurdish nongovernmental organizations called for Turkey’s southeastern regions to be granted autonomy via constitutional reforms.

Turkish security forces launched a large-scale security operation in southeastern part of the country on December 14.

Human Rights Watch criticized the curfews, stating that they make it impossible to monitor causes of deaths. “Many people have died in circumstances which are extremely difficult to scrutinize because of the curfews,” The Guardian quoted Emma Sinclair-Webb, a senior researcher for Human Rights Watch, as saying.

https://www.rt.com/news/330394-turkey-people-flee-diyarbakir-kurds/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=RSS

Germany's foreign ministry has on its website (in German) urged German tourists in Istanbul to avoid large crowds and tourist attractions and warned that further violent clashes and "terrorist attacks" were expected across Turkey. BBC

At least 10 people were killed and 15 more were wounded this morning in an attack on Sultanahmet, the historic central district of Istanbul, Turkey. According to Turkish officials, a Syrian suicide bomber who may have been affiliated with ISIS or Kurdish separatists was behind the attack.

In a statement this morning, per the BBC, Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that Turkey is a “top target for all terrorist groups in the region.” Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus said the attacker has been identified as a Syrian born in 1988.

Kurtulmus also noted that most of the victims were foreigners. German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in a statement this morning, “We are seriously concerned that German citizens could and probably will be among the victims and wounded. Those affected are members of a German tourist group.”

So far, no terrorist group has claimed responsibility for the attack. The New York Times notes that in January of last year a Russian suicide bomber with possible ties to ISIS attacked a police station in Sultanahmet, killing on officer. Three other attacks on Turkey last year were linked to ISIS as well, including a bombing in Ankara that killed over 100 people. The BBC notes that “violence has also soared between Turkish security officials and the PKK Kurdish militants, with a PKK offshoot, the TAK, firing a mortar at Istanbul airport last month.”

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you dont know anything about Turkey and its domestic problems. i live in Turkey. Kurdish terrorists are killing turkish soldiers everyday yet  turkish government made a lot law about kurdish civil rights. BUT Turkey are doomed to take serious cautions over this problem. We cant enjoy our soldiers deaths.

The laws and regulations in the European Union are not compatible with those in Turkey. As per the EU guidelines, minority languages must be officially recognized, and every attempt must be made to make them available in the field of education, government, and bureaucracy. And how the Turks are going to implement this, when there is a blanket ban on the usage of the Kurdish language?

'Turkey's governing style unacceptable in EU'

EU Commissioner Guenther Oettinger said Turkey will not join the Union in the next 10 or even 20 years. He added that the country needs to demonstrate that it wants to stick to the values and rules of the organisation.

Well, that´s disappointing. Turkey would be just the perfect addition to the soft underbelly.

Yeah, who will do that? All talk no work done. Free threats. Accept it, he's too powerful. You can't destroy the puppet of US, unless US want it.

An independent Kurdistan should contain the ethnic Kurd inhabited regions of Syria and Iraq, in addition to those Kurdish dominated areas of Turkey. Kurdistan is the last stronghold of secularism and progressiveness in the Middle-East (along with the current Syrian regime), and it should be maintained as such at any cost. If Erdogan opposes this, then just send him to some gulag.

Kurds should have their own country seceding from Turkey. Turkish leaders are barbarians, and Republic of Kurdistan needs to be established. Right inside Turkey.

Yeah, probably because %60 of people are from right wing and %50 of all people voted for AKP.
German-Turkish relations have a long history so Merkel's visits are not surprising though.

The Turkish Kurds should have self-rule, along with the other Kurds as well.. It's probably pointless to hope for Iran to give up what they hold of Kurdistan, but Iraq and Syria have never proven themselves to be fair to their Kurdish minorities and should lose those lands and that population.

Civil war in Turkey? Hey, I'd live to see that. That would make impossible for the NATO to keep on seeing Turkey as a normal and friendly country. I find it shocking that Frau Merkel keeps on visiting Erdogan like he was a nice guy, with the EU handing him money so he can kill more Kurds.

The sad part is that there was elections recently in Turkey, and there's still a majority backing Erdogan. Perhaps most Turks are insane.

IF there will be a civil war, I'm sure most people won't fight. People are tired to tolerate all this ignorance. Most people already give up.


That was Apple viral. Apple is the new sponsor of Erdoğan.



http://www.sabah.com.tr/gundem/2015/12/26/appledan-erdogana-ozel-mac

U.S./NATO favorite war marketing ploy "he´s killing his own people" never applies to their allies. It´s their usual double standards.

Just start seizing the government buildings under crowd's umbrella, that's how new country is created nowadays. This approach works fine, proven by Kosovo and DPR