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The Grand Turk

Nearly 500 PKK targets hit in Iraq, Syria after Ankara attack: Erdogan

2024-10-29

[Rudaw] The Ottoman Turkish military has struck 470 Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) targets in Iraq and Syria since the group carried out an attack on a Ottoman Turkish state-owned defense firm last week, ~~The Sick Man of Europe~~ Turkey
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
’s President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First

His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First

...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...
said on Monday.

Following a cabinet meeting, the Ottoman Turkish leader said that the Kurdish gang wanted to send the Ottoman Turkish government a message through Wednesday’s attack on Ottoman Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI)

…also in our archives as TUSAS…

which killed five people and injured 22 others.

Hours after the attack, Turkey responded in time-honored fashion, by bombing border areas in the Kurdistan Region and alleged PKK positions in northeast Syria (Rojava).

Erdogan claimed that the Ottoman Turkish army "neutralized" 213 PKK fighters during their retaliatory strikes against the group’s alleged bases in the Kurdistan Region and Rojava, adding that 470 targets belonging to the group were hit. Ankara uses the phrase to denote adversaries captured, maimed, or killed.

"As the Republic of Turkey, we have discarded the messages intended to be given through this vile attack," he said.

PKK grabbed credit for the attack, saying it was carried out by "an autonomous team" which belongs to one of its offshoots, noting that it often conducts "self-sacrificing actions that are warnings and messages against the genocidal practices, massacres and isolation practices of the Ottoman Turkish state power."

The Kurdish group has accused Ankara of oppressing its significant Kurdish population. Founded in 1978, the PKK initially called for the establishment of an independent Kurdistan but now calls for autonomy. The group is designated as a terrorist organization by Turkey and Western allies.

The 40-year long conflict between PKK and the Ottoman Turkish state has claimed an estimated 40,000 lives.

The latest tensions between the arch-foes emerged amid rumors of fresh attempts aiming for a rapprochement. The lifting of isolation measures on the incarcerated
Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'!
PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan on the same day of the TAI attack and the shocking remarks of a Ottoman Turkish nationalist leader, who extended an olive branch to Ocalan, have given a glimpse of hope to those who have been struggling to end decades of war.

Erdogan claimed last week that the two PKK members who attacked TAI headquarters had entered the country from Syria.

The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) are the dominant force in northeast Syria and have been supported by the US-led international coalition 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). Ankara considers the SDF to be an offshoot of the PKK.

SDF commander Mazloum Abdi denied the "activists" entered Turkey from their areas.

"Our forces have nothing to do with these attacks and the attackers did not pass through Syrian territory," he said in a video message on Saturday.

Abdi said the Ottoman Turkish strikes had killed 15 civilians and two of their members.

Posted by:trailing wife

#1 And nobody lectures Turkey about proportionality. I wonder why?

Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2024-10-29 07:02

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