Militants loyal to the banned Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) carried out multiple attacks inside southeastern Turkey today, killing at least five people, including three workers, a private security guard, and a soldier in the Turkish military.
Two of the workers were repairing a road outside of a Turkish military base in Sirnak Province, while the third was at a separate work site in Sirnak. The security guard and the soldier were killed in two separate remote detonated explosions. Five other workers and a security guard were also wounded in the incidents.
Turkish forces carried out a military operation later in the day, killing three PKK fighters, who they suggested were responsible for the recent attacks. Turkey’s Interior Ministry says that 55 PKK militants have been killed in the area over the past week.
The PKK has been fighting a war against Turkey off and on since the early 1980s. The war has escalated significantly in the past year, since the Erdogan government withdrew from a mutual ceasefire that was meant to give way to peace talks.
Blowback’s a bitch. I’ll pray for the dead but Erdogan made this bed, now the Turkish people have to sleep in it.
Hou do not know the reality. Kurds of Turkey rely on foreign power to conduct armed rebellion. It always comes in the same form. Some unsuspecting workers, policemen, postmen, or a small military installation. Turkish army response predictably will follow.
SOMEBODY is mad at Turkey, and ratcheting up problems in Kurdish region is simple enough. I just want everyone to remember that just as ISIS does not get their arms and money from Allah, neither do Kurds. We have been conditioned to think that theirs is a noble fight. I disagree. I do not respect any minority that feels entitled to destroy peace and tranquility of any country. Their country. And for the sake of foreign influence peddling. We have been conditioned by our media that Erdogan is a dictator who expanded his authority and trampled on democracy. Not that all that happened was a change from a parliamentary system to a presidential one. We have a presidential form of government since the beginning. The reason for attacking Turkey is a simple one. It escaped globalist noose. Soros and Gulen networks were dismantled, and Turkey is one of the guarantors of Astana peace process for Syria. It is also a factor in Gulf crisis. Today, a remarkable statement came from Qatar — an admission of the role Wahhabism plays in the radicalizing of Islam and the creation of cruel cults. The very Salafi movements funded by Saudi Arabia that are spreading across Islamic world, and that nearly took Egypt into civil war against Egypt’s Moslem Brotherhood. Turkey was in danger of spreading the internal religious fight under the influence of so called MODERATE cleric, Fetullah Gulen. But he fled to US to earn his billions in equally mysterious ways as Soros wealth funds. He is helping our kids enjoy better education in privatized chsrter schools. Using our public funds. Over 100 schools, over 40 in Texas alone. But the billions did not work. The coup failed, and his networks dismantled. So now, Erdogan must be an autocrat. Soon, we will see all sorts of nasty things about Saudi Arrabia and its impetuous and reckless prince. Saudi Arabia has not changed, so why the revelations now? Because it does look like the new crown prince replaced the smooth decades long reliable hand, prince Najaf — is playing by the preset rules. So now, Qatar or Saudi Arabia? Turkey or Kurds? Support for Gulen in US or Qaradawi in Qatar, or lose trust of Turkey and Egypt.
As new crown prince tackles Wahhabi extremism, while US increases the criticism of Saudi Arabia. US exerted influence over Al-Jazeera since 2014.
So, the real clue of the role US plays in Al-Jazeera is obvious when UN stepped in to defend the media. If indeed it is the mouthpiece of Qatari government — all we would hear is how horrible it is. But since it more or less uses typical neocon digs at other Arab nations — keeping them on their toes. This I suspect will change and soon. Interesting times are coming.