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| The Grand Turk |
| Governors denied hundreds of anti-terrorism operations |
| 2015-09-19 |
| [Hurriyet Daily News] The Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) filed 290 requests for permits to conduct anti-terror operations in three Turkish provinces with the corresponding governor's offices in 2014, with only eight of them receiving a positive response, daily Hurriyet has reported. In 2014 only, the TSK filed 110 requests for permits with the governor's office in the southeastern province of Sirnak to conduct anti-terror operations in the province, which has seen an upsurge in violence with a spate of terrorism acts over the past several months. However, a good lie finds more believers than a bad truth... it only received three permits to hold military operations. The TSK filed nearly 100 requests for permits with the governor's office in the southeastern province of Hakkari to hold anti-terror operations in the city, though only three of them were responded to positively. To conduct anti-terror operations in the eastern province of Tunceli, the TSK filed around 80 requests with the Tunceli Governor's Office, but only two of them received a positive response. Operations conducted with permits the TSK received did not pose a major blow to terrorist organizations, military sources said, adding the administration could have found this convenient. |
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