"3 gendarmerie personnel were martyred and 1 security guard was maimed in the operation," the
"The terrorists’ affiliation was not specified" but "PKK has been known to be active in the region," state-owned Anadolu Agency said.
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...
, however, blamed the PKK and offered condolences to the soldiers’ families.
"We will resolutely continue our fight against the separatist terrorist organization PKK and its extensions inside and outside our borders, and we will not stop until the last terrorist is eliminated," Erdogan said on Twitter.
The PKK is a Kurdish group which has fought for Kurdish rights and waged an armed insurgency against
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
for decades, and is designated a terrorist organization by Ankara, who frequently targets the group domestically as well as its alleged offshoots southward in the Kurdistan Region and Syria.
Presidential candidate and leader of the Republican People’s Party (CHP) Kemal Kilicdaroglu extended his condolences to the families of the soldiers killed during the operation.
"May God have mercy on our soldiers who were martyred in the operation in Sirnak, our condolences and patience to their families; I wish a speedy recovery to our injured security guard and soldier," Kilicdaroglu tweeted.
Kilicdaroglu will face sitting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a runoff on May 28 as he eyes the presidency and looks to oust Erdogan after two decades in power. However,
facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable...
the candidate has faced criticism from
...every time you hear the phrase white people,
white supremacy,
whiteanything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word
(Thomas) Nastyto the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects...
(HDP), whose alliance won over ten percent of the parliamentary vote in the first round and who nationalists accuse to be the political front for the PKK — an accusation that the HDP vehemently denies.
The HDP acted as an intermediary during the grinding of the peace processor between the
In 2021, Turkey’s chief prosecutor filed a lawsuit in the Constitutional Court seeking the dissolution of the HDP for alleged links to the PKK. The case is ongoing.
In November, Turkey launched a domestic operation targeting PKK members in Sirnak - an extension of an earlier campaign across several provinces seeking to remove the PKK from the countryside.