Kurdish-populated Hakkari has recently seen many attacks carried out by the PKK, which is listed as a terrorist group by Turkey, the U.S. and the European Union.
The PKK has increased its activities, particularly in the Yuksekova district. The violent organization unilaterally declared 'self-rule' in Yuksekova and some other towns in southeastern Turkey; this is assessed as putting civilians at risk by provoking intervention from the security forces in populated areas.
Sources claim in any independent country such attempts would receive a response by the state's security apparatus.
Accusing the group of trying to cut off the region by making it a ‘no-go’ zone for the security forces, sources said the PKK was using handmade explosives and setting up street barricades.
The sources also claimed that children were being included in PKK actions and that the group was trying to force people from the homes by creating a climate of fear in the region.
Turkish security forces' losses reach 43
Forty-three members of Turkey’s security forces have been martyred in the last 41 days, amid a wave of armed conflict in the country.
Soldiers, police officers and village guards are all among the dead.
The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), its youth wing – the Patriotic Revolutionary Youth Movement – plus the far-left Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front have all been active recently in Turkey.
According to Anadolu Agency figures, 43 members of the security forces - including Gendarme commander Major Arslan Kulaksiz - have been martyred.
Fifty attackers have been killed by the security forces and nine captured injured in 41 days.
In airstrikes carried out by the Turkish military since late July, 390 suspected PKK members were killed and at least 400 injured.
Last 24 hours
The figures come as fighting between troops and PKK militants in northeastern Turkey left another soldier lost his life on Sunday.
Clashes in the early hours of Sunday morning near the town of Kagizman, Kars province, saw three PKK fighters killed, the provincial governor’s office said. A soldier was also wounded in the fighting.
In a statement, the Turkish Armed Forces said the clash happened at 5.30 a.m. local time (0230GMT). The soldiers called on the insurgents to surrender but were fired upon. The military said the soldier died from his wounds in hospital.
The PKK - designated a terrorist group by Turkey, the EU and U.S. - renewed its armed campaign following a mass-casualty Daesh-linked suicide bombing in Suruc on July 20.
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16/8/15
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4 soldiers, 1 police officer killed in PKK attacks over weekend...
ReplyDeleteThree soldiers were killed in a bomb attack carried out by the terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in the eastern province of Bingöl on Saturday, while a police officer also died in another attack in the Şemdinli district of Şırnak on Saturday, with a sergeant major slain in clashes between security forces and PKK terrorists in the eastern province of Kars on Sunday.
Three PKK members were also killed in the clashes in Kars' Kağızman district in a rural area near the village of Karakale. The slain sergeant major was identified as 35-year-old Nurettin Öztürk, who was on a temporary assignment at a gendarmerie station in Kağızman.
In a similar terrorist incident, a noncommissioned officer and two specialized sergeants were killed in a bomb attack in Bingöl on Saturday, media outlets reported. Six soldiers were also injured in the terrorist attack by the PKK. Explosives placed along a road were detonated as a military vehicle was passing by, reports said. The attack took place in a rural area about 30 kilometers from the town of Karlıova..............http://www.todayszaman.com/national_4-soldiers-1-police-officer-killed-in-pkk-attacks-over-weekend_396699.html
16/8/15