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2023-02-27 The Grand Turk
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Turkey claims death of 261 PKK, YPG fighters since January
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[Rudaw] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
’s defense ministry claimed Saturday its forces have killed 261 Kurdish fighters in the Kurdistan Region and northern Syria since the year began, pledging to continue operations against the groups despite Ankara reeling from the effects of a deadly quake.
"Since January 1 in the north of Iraq and Syria, we have neutralized 261 terrorists," Ottoman Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said, referring to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and the People’s Protection Units (YPG).
The PKK is a Kurdish group that has waged an armed insurgency against Turkey for decades and designated a terrorist organization by Ankara alongside another group Turkey claims to be its Syrian offshoot — the YPG.
"We have demolished terror nests, lairs, and shelters of terrorism, and we will continue to destroy them," Akar added, claiming that Turkey is not eyeing "anyone’s land in any way" but conducts such operations only to "ensure the security" of its borders.
Following two devastating quakes that struck Turkey and Syria and killed around 50,000, the PKK declared a ceasefire within Turkey’s borders in order to focus all resources on rescue efforts.
However,
a good lie finds more believers than a bad truth...
as Turkey’s south — home to a large Kurdish population - continues to be gripped by the disastrous earthquake, the country carried out two deadly dronezaps on vehicles in northeast Syria (Rojava), controlled by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) — a US-backed multiethnic force which the YPG are the core component of, killing at least two.
The SDF in northern Syria fought the lion’s share of the battle against the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(ISIS) and ultimately territorially defeated the terror group in 2019.
The People’s Defense Forces (HPG), the armed wing of the PKK, reported on Saturday that the Ottoman Turkish army had carried out 90 attacks on the force in the Kurdistan Region in two days.
In their annual casualty figures for 2022, the Ottoman Turkish interior ministry claimed that its forces inflicted 1,220 casualties on a "number" of terror groups including the PKK, while the PKK claimed that 2,942 Ottoman Turkish soldiers were killed during their attacks against the Ottoman Turkish army.
Last October, PKK-affiliated Firat News Agency (ANF) published several videos purportedly showing Ottoman Turkish soldiers targeting its fighters with chemical weapons
 ...have not been used since WWI except for in Iraq, by the late, unlamented Saddam Hussein and in Syria, but really, honest, not by the Syrian government. And in Germany in WWII, but that was against civilians. Lots of them, just one of many reasons Hitler's also late and unlamented except among devout Moslems...
, adding that Turkey has used banned bombs and chemical substances at least 2,476 times in six months.
The Ottoman Turkish defense ministry later deemed the claims that its soldiers used chemical weapons against the PKK "completely baseless and untrue."
More than 500 villages have been emptied in the Kurdistan Region over three decades of the Turkey-PKK conflict. 
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