Turkey F-16s BOMB Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in Southern Turkey !!!

[Rayzur]

(Reuters) - Turkish warplanes attacked Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) targets in southeast Turkey on Sunday in the first significant air operation against the militants since the launch of a peace process two years ago, Hurriyet news website said on Tuesday.

The air strikes caused "major damage" to the PKK, Hurriyet said. They were launched after three days of PKK attacks on a military outpost in Hakkari province near the Iraqi border, it added.

There was no immediate comment from the military on the reported air strikes, which Hurriyet said was carried out with the knowledge of Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu.

The incident came amid Kurdish anger in southeast Turkey at Ankara's failure to intervene along its border with Syria where Islamic State militants have besieged the mainly Kurdish town of Kobani for the last month.

"F-16 and F-4 warplanes which took off from (bases in the southeastern provinces of) Diyarbakir and Malatya rained down bombs on PKK targets after they attacked a military outpost in the Daglica region," Hurriyet said.

It said the PKK had attacked the outpost for three days with heavy machine guns and rocket launchers. The general staff said in a statement it had "opened fired immediately in retaliation in the strongest terms" after PKK attacks in the area.

Ankara launched a peace process with jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan in 2012 to end an insurgency which has killed more than 40,000 people in 30 years.

(Writing by Daren Butler; Editing by Dominic Evans)

 

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/14/us-turkey-kurds-warplanes-idUSKCN0I30IE20141014

 

 

And NOW it begins..... While breaking the truce was all but expected.... This is so not good.... For the Turkish government to bomb Kurds.... on top of what is happening in Kobani..... omg.... ..

[skeetdog]

Thanks Rayzur....Abadi needs to open up JBB (Anaconda) or Al Asad for US F-18'ing and F-22 Rapture  air command control and give the Peshmerga a dozen or two F-16 for engagement. Bring in a half dozen loaded Hercules with Peshmerga's ground armaments, transportation, communication and Tactical vehicle, supplies and ammo/ordinances. Then proceed with a start-up program of a OJT Peshmerga Fast-Track Field an Air Tactical Training Operations....

[moneysoon]

I am calling a trading of allies going on. We are rearranging our strategic spheres of influence...

[uncirculd]

Right, just as expected.  Turkey won't fight isis/daash but they will kill turkish kurds.  Go figure.  Knew that was coming, and has the nerve to complain

about syria's aleppo etc.  Turkey is and will always be a sunni state.  isis/daash is SUNNI.    mr o is from sunni origin.  See a pattern there.  We are not

doing enough and our military knows it and for what reason?  We have the door open for isis and for ebola.  Something stinks to high Heaven and

we know it.  But if you mention it, your islamaphob or racist.   That's what freaks call folks when they ain't got a clue what's going on around them.

Talk about infidels, thanks I resemble that very much.  

[dantach]

Thanks Rayzur....Abadi needs to open up JBB (Anaconda) or Al Asad for US F-18'ing and F-22 Rapture  air command control and give the Peshmerga a dozen or two F-16 for engagement. Bring in a half dozen loaded Hercules with Peshmerga's ground armaments, transportation, communication and Tactical vehicle, supplies and ammo/ordinances. Then proceed with a start-up program of a OJT Peshmerga Fast-Track Field an Air Tactical Training Operations....

How 'bout we just give them all our unused A10's

[10 YEARS LATER]

Who gave the Turks aircraft . . . ?

We did didn't we - FACEPALM

[KDuesing]

I dont believe this article.

[Rayzur]

I dont believe this article.

 

Well that pretty much leaves you alone on the planet in disbelief.... I posted Obama's reference to it in the Kobani Update thread here on DV... He was addressing the world military leaders.... I guess they all did believe the article....

 

Here is another article.... from today.. (emphasis is in article and not mine)..

 

 

One administration’s terrorist is another’s freedom fighter. Just ask the PKK.

The militant Kurdish independence group, known formally as the Kurdistan Workers Party, suffered strikes from Turkish fighter jets against its positions in southeastern Turkey — even as PKK-linked forces battle Islamic State militants in and around the Syrian town of Kobani.

Turkey, whose conflict with the PKK stretches back three decades, was reportedly retaliating after shells struck a Turkish military base. Deadly riots have also broken out recently in Kurdish areas of Turkey, fueled by perceptions that the Turkish government has been colluding to undermine Kurdish factions fighting in Syria.

The PKK is officially designated as a foreign terrorist organization (FTO) by the United States. As reported previously by The Intercept, the NSA under both the Bush and Obama Administrations actively aided the Turkish military in targeting this group and has provided intelligence used to kill its members.

However, in yet another ironic twist to U.S. foreign policy in the region, this ostensible terrorist organization is now an important American partner in halting the expansion of the Islamic State, also known as ISIS. The PKK today in part represent the “boots on the ground” in Syria that many observers have said are necessary to any serious campaign to reverse the spread of this group. In other words, the Bush administration’s terrorist group has become the Obama administration’s freedom fighters.

Despite this, and despite facing a shared danger from ISIS, the PKK and Turkey have not been able to put aside their differences.  Indeed, their conflict appears to be escalating to new heights. These airstrikes represent the first major Turkish military action against the PKK in two years and are likely to generate further reprisals.

Though hugely counterproductive to containing ISIS, the Turkish strikes neatly illustrate how contradictory and incomprehensible American policy in the Middle East is right now. The United States would surely prefer that Turkey not bomb the PKK right now, but how can it object to attacking a group that the U.S. itself designates as a terrorist organization?

It would likewise be hard for the U.S. to publicly protect other key entities willing and able to fight ISIS, including Al-Qaeda-connected militants like Jabhat al-Nusra, paramilitary groups such as Hezbollah, or countries such as Iran, which is both the the only state to show a commitment to fighting ISIS on the ground and an official state sponsor of terrorism in the eyes of the U.S. State Department.

The U.S. has shown no real resolve in turning such groups into a real anti-ISIS coalition. Whatever American politicians may say in public, official U.S. policy toward the conflict in Syria largely amounts to “everyone’s a terrorist”. Recent American airstrikes reached beyond ISIS targets to other extremist groups, helping to unite against the U.S. various factions that had beforehand been at odds.

The people on the ground fighting ISIS today in Kobani are the same ones whose comrades were recently being described as terrorists and killed with the direct assistance of the NSA. Turkey’s airstrikes yesterday are simply a continuation of these policies, and the natural result of such designations. If the United States is serious about combating ISIS, it needs to look past its dated and counterproductive FTO list and start reevaluating who its real enemies are today.

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Edited October 15, 2014 by Rayzur

[skeetdog]

dantach...Come to think of it...That's a Damn good idea...Let'em have the ''War-Hogs''...      

[Rayzur]

:twothumbs:  to both you guys... someone should be able to get good use out of them...

[magawatt]

NY TIMES ARTICLE

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/10/15/world/europe/turkey-airstrike-kurds-isis.html?referrer=

[KDuesing]

Ok Rayzur your right thanks for correcting me, i didnt know the PKK was a Kurdish terrorist group I thought they were just Kurds fighting ISIS in Iraq.

 

The PKK is officially designated as a foreign terrorist organization (FTO) by the United States. As reported previously by The Intercept, the NSA under both the Bush and Obama Administrations actively aided the Turkish military in targeting this group and has provided intelligence used to kill its members.

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