ძველი კონფლიქტი ისევ იღვიძებს.
ამ ბოლო თვეებში მკვეთრად გამწვავდა მდგომარეობა თურქეთსა და ქურთ სეპარატისტებს შორის. დღეს თურქეთის ავიაციამ იერიში მიიტანა ქურთების პოზიციებზე ჩრდილოეთ ერაყში მას შემდეგ, რაც სასაზღვრო რაიონში მომხდარ შეტაკებებში 8 თურქი სამხედრო მოსამსახურე და 12 სეპარატისტი დაიღუპა. კიდევ ორი თურქი ჯარისკაცი ნაღმზე აფეთქდა. 14 ჯარისკაცი დაჭრილია.
ეს უკანასკნელი ინციდენტები გაგრძელებაა ამ ბოლო ერთი თვის განმავლობაში მომხდარი იმ შეტაკებების სერიაში, რომლებმაც დაწყებული ამ წლის მარტიდან 40 თურქი ჯარისკაცი იმსხვერპლეს, იმ 7 სამხედრო მოსამსახურის ჩათვლით, სამხედრო საზღვაო ძალების ბაზაზე მიტანილი იერიშის დროს რომ დაიღუპნენ სამიოდ კვირის წინ.
პარასკევს, თურქეთის არმიამ გაავრცელა ცნობა რომლის მიხედვითაც გასულ თვეში თურქეთის ავიაციის მიერ ჩრდილოეთ ერაყში ქურთების პოზიციების დაბომბვის შედეგად 120 ქურთი სეპარატისტი დაიღუპა.
თურქეთის არმიის ცნობით, ერაყში PKK-ის რიგებში მოქმედებს 4,000, ხოლო თვით თურქეთის ტერიტორიაზე კი 2,500 ქურთი მებრძოლი.
1984 წლიდან ამ კონფლიქტმა უკვე 40,000 ადამიანის სიცოცხლე შეიწირა.
Turkish jets raid northern Iraq, clashes kill 22By SUZAN FRASER, Associated Press Writer Suzan Fraser, Associated Press Writer Sat Jun 19, 7:26 am ET
ANKARA, Turkey – Turkish warplanes launched air raids at suspected Kurdish rebel positions in northern Iraq Saturday after a rebel attack on a military outpost in Turkey touched off clashes in which eight soldiers and 12 rebel fighters died, Turkey's military said.
Two other soldiers were killed in a land mine explosion while chasing the rebels, the state-run Anatolia new agency reported, raising the overall death toll in Saturday's violence to 22.
Special forces were immediately sent to reinforce the border area where the clashes occurred and Turkish warplanes bombed detected Kurdish rebel positions in northern Iraq the military said, without providing any further details.
At least 14 other soldiers were wounded in the fighting.
Kurdish rebels have dramatically stepped up attacks in Turkey in recent months, threatening a government attempt to end one of the world's longest guerrilla wars. The military said Friday more than 40 soldiers had been killed since March — including six who died in a rocket attack on a vehicle near a naval base in southern Turkey — and warned it anticipated more attacks.
Turkey's military has responded by sending warplanes across the border for raids on suspected rebel bases while elite commandos crossed the border in pursuit of the rebels in a daylong incursion earlier this week.
The rebels belonging to the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, have used northern Iraq as a springboard to stage hit-and-run attacks on Turkish targets in their decades-long campaign for autonomy in Turkey's Kurdish-dominated southeast. The Turkish military says around 4,000 rebels are based just across the border in Iraq and that about 2,500 operate inside Turkey.
The group declared it was increasing attacks on June 1, a day after imprisoned Kurdish rebel chief Abdullah Ocalan said in a statement relayed by his lawyers that his calls for dialogue with Turkey had been ignored and that he was giving his consent to the rebel command in northern Iraq to determine which course of action to take.
The military said Saturday's attack occurred at 2 a.m. (2300 GMT Friday) on an outpost near the town of Semdinli — a mountainous region where the borders of Turkey, Iraq and Iran meet. Private NTV television, citing unnamed military sources, said a large group of PKK rebels infiltrated the area from hideouts across the Iraqi border to attack the military unit.
Clashes in the region were continuing sporadically, NTV said.
The United States, which along with the European Union, has declared the PKK to be a terrorist group, has provided intelligence to Turkey in support of its fight against the rebels. Turkey also uses drones it recently purchased from Israel.
Armagan Kuloglu, a retired general and military analyst, said, however, there appeared to be a deficiency in the intelligence and that the advance of the rebels should have been detected.
Saturday's attack was met with outrage among politicians in Turkey.
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey was determined to press ahead with the fight "until the terrorist organization is eradicated."
A nationalist opposition party, the Nationalist Action Party, called for a wide-ranging ground offensive in northern Iraq, including the establishment of a security zone along the border inside Iraqi territory and operations against PKK commanders believed to be based on Mount Qandil, which sits on the Iranian-Iraqi border.
On Friday, the military said it had killed as many as 120 Kurdish rebels in an air raid on rebel positions in northern Iraq last month and in this week's incursion by elite commandos who crossed the border to hunt down a group of PKK rebels who escaped after a failed attack near the border town of Uludere.
Turkey has launched several air and ground incursions into northern Iraq over the 26 years of the insurgency, with mixed results. The rebels have returned to positions along the border soon after the troops have withdrawn.
The Marxist group has been labeled a terrorist organization by the West for killing civilians in urban bombings and arson attacks and slaying government teachers, engineers and clergymen.
The government has extended greater cultural rights to the Kurds such as broadcasts in the Kurdish language on television, in an effort to win their hearts and reduce support for the rebels.
Turkey, however, rejects calls from the Kurdish rebels and politicians to allow education in schools in Kurdish. The language is also barred in parliament and other official settings on the grounds that its use would divide the country along ethnic lines.
The conflict has killed as many as 40,000 people since 1984.
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10 Turkish soldiers killed in PKK attack in SoutheastANKARA — Agence France-Presse
Saturday, June 19, 2010
Members of an outlawed terrorist organization killed 10 Turkish soldiers in an attack on an military post and a mine explosion near the border with Iraq, prompting retaliatory air raids on terrorist outposts, the military said Saturday.
The attack blamed on the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, took place at a military post near the city of Şemdinli close to the Iraqi border, and also left 14 soldiers wounded, the military said in an online statement.
The military responded with helicopters and reportedly killed 12 terrorists, the military statement added.
Fighter jets then launched a bombing raid in northern Iraq where the PKK has rear bases, the military said.
Later Saturday, two soldiers were killed by a remote-controlled mine while engaged in operations to capture PKK members infiltrating across the border.
On Friday the Turkish military announced that at least 130 members of the PKK had been killed inside Turkey and in an air raid on hideouts in Iraq since violence flared in March. The military had lost 43 personnel.
The military also said it expected the PKK to further intensify and spread its attacks.
The mounting violence in recent months has clouded the government's bid to seek a peaceful end to the 26-year-old conflict.
The conflict with the PKK, considered a terrorist organization by Turkey, the United States and the European Union, has claimed more than 45,000 lives since it began in 1984, according to the military.
© 2009 Hurriyet Daily News
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=e...army-2010-06-19 This post has been edited by SHALDAG on 19 Jun 2010, 19:26 You don't fight because you think you'll win, you fight because you have to win.
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