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| Turkish tanks deployed to stop PKK, Cavusoglu says |
| 2016-11-09 |
| [AA.TR] The build-up of tanks and armored vehicles in the border town of Silopi will prevent PKK gunnies from securing a base in northern Iraq’s Sinjar region, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Tuesday. Reiterating earlier comments by ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... ’s defense minister and president, Cavusoglu warned that Turkey would not stand by while the PKK expanded their influence across the region. "We have taken our measures especially against the PKK, which is trying to turn Sinjar, under the guise of protecting Ezidis, into Qandil," he said, referring to the PKK’s main base on the Iraq-Iran border. "One of the purposes of sending a certain number of troops and our armed forces lately is this. We will never allow such things. We will not." Armored columns headed into Silopi, which lies on the Turkish border with Iraq and Syria, last week. The operation to liberate djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... from ISIS has seen the PKK move into Sinjar, an area heavily populated by Ezidis that lies around 110 kilometers (68 miles) west of Mosul and around 100 km (62 miles) southwest of the Turkish border. The PKK and its Syrian offshoot the PYD are listed as terror groups by Turkey although the U.S. and EU only view the PKK as a terrorist organization. Cavusoglu was speaking at a parliamentary planning and budget commission in capital Ankara. Last week, Defense Minister Fikri Isik said Turkey was not obliged to wait behind its borders if PKK gunnies moved into Sinjar. Previously, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... had warned that the terror group was already in the area. Cavusoglu said Ankara had warned the governments in Baghdad and Erbil, capital of the Kurdish autonomous region in northern Iraq, as well as coalition officials against allowing a PKK foothold in the region. |
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