PKK Attacks Continue as Military Operations End

Monday, 13 August 2012

Members of the Kurdistan Workers Party attack southeastern emdinlis Dereceik district as the governors office in the city announces the military operations end.

Following the Hakkari Governors Offices announcement that the 19-day-long military operation in the southeastern provinces emdinli district had ended, Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) members carried out several attacks in the region.

PKK militants in emdinlis Derecik district shot at village guards on patrol duty Aug. 11, but no casualties were reported. The real target was said to be the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) mayor of Derecik, Husret Dinç, because his house was attacked on the same night.

PKK members also opened an identity checkpoint in Yüksekova, Hakkari, halting road traffic, on Aug. 12. The militants distributed PKK propaganda for nearly an hour, and then allowed the civilian drivers to continue on their way. On another occasion in the same district, alleged members of the organization set a fuel tanker that reportedly carried fuel for Turkish military vehicles on fire.

Careful operation

These most recent attacks came after the Hakkari Governorships announcement on Aug. 11 that military operations in the emdinli district had ended. An official statement described the process as careful and decisive and stated that many PKK militants have been rendered ineffective as a result of the operation. The governorship also thanked the people of Semdinli for their patient attitude. The operations began July 23 and have continued for the past 19 days. Seven zones in emdinli had been taken under a temporary military prohibition amid the operations.

Meanwhile, the driver of a military bus that was struck in an attack by Kurdish militants in zmir last week was officially declared brain dead Aug. 12. The driver, Hasan Furkan Özmen, was lauded for preventing greater loss of life by immediately stopping the bus after it was hit, thereby preventing it from falling over a cliff. Özmens heart reportedly stopped twice while he was being transferred to the hospital following the Aug. 9 attack.

One soldier, Özkan Ateli, was killed in the Aug. 9 attack, while 10 others were injured, when PKK militants detonated a landmine as the military bus passed by on a road in zmirs Foça district. One suspect was arrested in Foça on charges of being a carrier for the attack.

In Izmir on Aug. 12 nearly 5,000 people staged a protest to condemn the attack in Foça. The protestors, who organized the rally via social media websites, filled the citys main square, Gündodu, carrying Turkish flags.
http://www.turkishweekly.net/news/140296/pkk-attacks-continue-as-military-operations-end.html






April/21/2012
Turkey is not like China. Turkey is, just like Italy, Greece, Spain and Portugal.
www.hurriyetdailynews.com

It ended in Hakkari, continue in other areas.

Thinks get more hot

Erdoan has fast-breaking dinner with military chief

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoan had an iftar, or fast-breaking dinner, with Chief of General Staff Gen. Necdet Özel on Monday.

The prime minister was scheduled to attend the fast-breaking dinner of the Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research (SETA) on Monday evening. However, for an unknown reason he changed his mind and paid a visit to Gen. Özel at his house in the Çankaya district of Ankara. Erdoan was accompanied by his wife, Emine.

This is the first time Erdoan has had an iftar with a chief of General Staff at the latter's house since he came to office.
http://www.worldbulletin.net/?aType=haber&ArticleID=93930







April/21/2012
Turkey is not like China. Turkey is, just like Italy, Greece, Spain and Portugal.
www.hurriyetdailynews.com

Because more are sneaking in??? Doesn't take a genius to figure that bit out.

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