"Turkish security forces killed in attacks blamed on PKK" Topic

"PKK has largely observed a truce since 2013 but over the past week attacks on security forces have occurred almost daily [AFP]At least three Turkish troops have been killed in an attack on the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in southeastern Turkey.
The army said the soldiers were killed when PKK fighters opened fire on a convoy in the province of Sirnak on Thursday.
"As a result of an attack by the separatist terror organisation three of our brave personnel – one officer, one non-commissioned officer, and one private – were killed."
Official Turkish media reported that a Turkish policeman and a civilian were killed in another attack in the country's mainly Kurdish southeast a day earlier…"
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Turkey PKK: 'Three soldiers killed' as convoy ambushed

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Amicalement
Armand

Turkey using ISIS as cover to settle issues with some Kurds…keep them in line…US media and administration give them a pass…great

I agree. Another administration willing to let the Kurds die even though they are the only ones making any progress.

"Let the Kurds die?" How about, retaliation against a group that is operating outside of Kurdish gov't sanction. And the Turks know who they are and are getting back at them….

I didn't realize that there was a Kurdish government…

And what would we tell the Turks the first time an American supplied weapon turns up in a PKK attack in Turkey?

Anyone who believes there's a simple answer to this situation is deluding themselves.

Poor Kurds…remember me some plain indians.

Amicalement
Armand

The Kurds have held out for centuries up in the mountains, because of the mountains. Their strategic situation is more like the Apaches than the Sioux.

The Iranians, if they please can establish that elusive land route to Kurdistan, across Iraqi territory, and ship in artillery, armor, heavy infantry weapons and bulk ammunition, all the tools of war that the Kurds have been crying out for, that we have denied them.

The Iraqis may not like it, but they are more clients of Iran than they ever were of us, and they'll allow whatever the Mullahs demand.

With effective hand-over of Iraq, and with the treaty we have just made with the Mullahs, we have practically invited the Kurds to become Iranian clients. Turkey making war on the Kurds will leave them no other choice.

"I didn't realize that there was a Kurdish government…"

Three of them, in fact.

"Anyone who believes there's a simple answer to this situation is deluding themselves."

Best single statement made here regarding the MidEast.

"…we have practically invited the Kurds to become Iranian clients."

One third of the three Kurdish governments has long been, and always been, an Iranian client. The other two Kurdish governments have been forced by geographic necessity to deal with the Iranians as powerful neighbors. Tehran is near, Washington is far. Tehran thinks long-term, Washington is capricious.