PKK attack kills four police officers in southeast Turkey

September 3, 2015 By administrator

MARDİN – Doğan News Agency

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Four police officers were killed in an outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) attack in the southeastern province of Mardin on Sept. 3.

PKK militants set an under-construction school alight and detonated an explosive planted on the road in the Dargeçit district of Mardin, targeting an armored police vehicle that accompanied the fire brigades responding to the fire. One chief police officer and three police officers were killed in the explosion. report Doğan News Agency

Police officers were idendified as Akif Hatunoğlu, Ahmet Akalın, while the slain chief police officer was identified as İbrahim Halil Aksoy.

A wide-scale operation has been opened in the region to apprehend the PKK militants responsible for the attack.
Meanwhile, a police station in Kovancılar district of eastern province of Elazığ was attacked with rocket-propelled grenades by the PKK militants late Sept. 2.

Three police officers were injured and hospitalized after the attack.

The police started an investigation into the incident.

Earlier on Sept. 2, two special operations police officers were slightly injured when their car was hit by a roadside bomb in Mardin’s Derik district.

Armenian serviceman killed by Azerbaijanis was father of 5

September 3, 2015 By administrator

YEREVAN. – An Armenian serviceman killed in ceasefire violation by Azerbaijan was a father of five.

Hayk Tevoyan, 40, was a resident of Norashen village of Ararat Region and has been working as a contract soldier for five years, head of the village Artur Karapetyan told Armenian News-NEWS.am.

“He was a very good, modest guy. He had five children, three of them underage and one is married. The socially vulnerable family received allowance,” he said.

An Armenian contract soldier was killed as a result of ceasefire violations by the Azerbaijani armed forces in the direction of Tavush Region.

Turkey: Former head of AKP youth branch killed in gun attack in Diyarbakır

August 31, 2015 By administrator

DİYARBAKIR – Anadolu Agency

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A former head of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) youth branch was killed on Aug. 31 in a gun attack in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır. the Hurriyet Daily News reports

Unknown assailants attacked Yunus Koca, who was a pharmacist, in front of his drugstore in Diyarbakır’s central Yenişehir district. Koca was badly wounded and rushed to hospital, where he later succumbed to his injuries.

Security forces have opened an operation to find the assailants, while the police are investigating whether the attack was linked to terrorist groups in the area.

Three Turkish police officers killed in PKK attacks & 11were injured

August 29, 2015 By administrator

ŞANLIURFA / TUNCELİ

A police bus has been targeted in an attack in Mardin’s Kızıltepe distrcit. DHA photo

Three Turkish police officers were killed, 11 police officers and 14 civilians were injured late Aug. 28 in three separate attacks in the eastern province of Tunceli and the southeastern provinces of Şanlıurfa and Mardin by suspected members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).

In Şanlıurfa, unknown assailants opened fire on a police car leaving the emergency room of the Balıklıgöl State Hospital. Two police officers inside the car were severely injured, and they later died at the hospital despite all efforts of the doctors.

In the Nazimiye district of Tunceli, a group of suspected PKK militants attacked the police headquarters with heavy weapons and rocket launchers late Aug. 28. During the attack, three police officers were injured and two PKK militants were killed. One of the injured police officers succumbed to his injuries hours later.

In the southeastern province of Mardin Kızıltepe district, the militants fired a rocket on a police shuttle carrying 25 officers. The rocket missed the bus and hit metal barrels in a shop on the street filled with diesel fuel. The explosion and the ensuing fire injured nine police officers and 14 civilians, while also damaging the surrounding buildings.

The tensions in the country’s southeast have been running high since the PKK started launching attacks on the security personnel and anti-terrorism operations were launched in July.

According to a recent toll by the state-run Anadolu Agency, 918 PKK militants have been killed in ground operations and air strikes since July. Meanwhile, at least 60 members of the Turkish security forces have lost their lives in a cycle of violence that shows no sign of abating.

Source: hurriyetdailynews.com

PKK claims 42 fighters, 417 Turkish forces, killed in recent clashes

August 28, 2015 By administrator

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – The armed wing of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) released its death toll from the recent clashes with Turkish government forces, claiming they killed 417 Turkish soldiers and police officers and lost 42 fighters in skirmishes and air raids.

The PKK’s People’s Defence Forces, also known as HPG, said in a statement released Friday that, since the outbreak of the July 24 clashes, the Turkish government launched 62 offensives against the group and in return HPG launched 191 offensives inside the country.

Turkish officials released different numbers for casualties. Ankara claimed Turkish security forces had killed 814 PKK fighters, mainly in air attacks in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Turkey also confirmed that 60 soldiers and police officers were killed by the PKK.

The Turkish government reignited a war with the PKK after the rebels claimed responsibility for the deaths of two army officers in late July. The fighting has ended a 2013 ceasefire that was meant to resolve a three-decade conflict in which some 40,000 people have been killed.

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Over 300 Azerbaijanis jihadists were killed in Syria and Iraq since 2014

August 28, 2015 By administrator

Another Azeri jihadist killed in Syria. According Timeturk, the Azeri part of the group of Islamist fighters “Mahmut Azeri” opposed to the regular troops of the Syrian army of President Bashar Al Assad. This Azeri killed in Syria was nicknamed “Zubair Azeri”, he was killed in air strikes on the Ribat area. Since 2014 the fighting that Azerbaijani citizen is the 150th to be killed in Syria. The Azerbaijani Embassy in Turkey has confirmed the passage of Azeris jihadists in Syria from Turkey. They would be 1500 citizens of Azerbaijan committed against the regime in Damascus. Syria and Iraq more than 300 of these fighters have already died.

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Ukraine: Turkish businessman killed by Turkish-man in Kyiv, report says

August 25, 2015 By administrator

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A Turkish businessman was killed by a Turkish man working for the Russian mafia in Ukraine, according to a report of his girlfriend’s testimony to the police.

Model Vijdan Vatansever said Cevdet Emir Şaşmaz was killed in Kyiv by a young Turkish man named Tarkan who was working for the Russian mafia, speaking to Turkish police in her testimony taken in Atatürk Airport after she arrive in Istanbul, according to daily Vatan.

Vatansever told the police that she, Şaşmaz and a friend named Sevinç took a taxi as soon as they landed in Kyiv. She said Yılmaz told her a man named Tarkan would meet them there. They went to an old house with Tarkan, who later on told Yılmaz to come with him, she claimed.

“Tarkan told Cevdet the Russian mafia wanted him for a girl he raped. They started to fight. I and my friend were very scared and we could only watch what happened,” she reportedly said.

Tarkan killed Yılmaz with a knife before tying up the two women and leaving them in a room with the deceased businessman, she claimed. “In the morning, we had a breakfast with Tarkan. He threatened us to not tell anyone about this incident. We went to a shopping mall and bought new clothes,” she added.

Vatansever also claimed Tarkan took all of Yılmaz’s belongings, including 30,000 Turkish Liras and a ring.

Diyarbakir: 2 Turkish soldiers killed, three injured in bomb blast

August 24, 2015 By administrator

Two more Turkish soldiers have lost their lives and three others sustained injuries in a roadside bomb blast in the southeastern province of Hakkari.

The incident happened after a military convoy on Monday hit a roadside bomb in the Semdinli district in the province.

The bombs were allegedly planted by militants from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).

The explosion brings to three the number of Turkish troopers killed over the past 24 hours.

On Sunday, a soldier was killed and three others were wounded in an exchange of fire with suspected PKK militants in the southeastern Diyarbakir Province.

Clashes have been going on on a daily basis between the PKK and Turkish armed forces since Turkey launched airstrikes against PKK positions in Iraq and Turkey as well as purported Daesh (ISIL) targets in Syria.

A shaky ceasefire that had stood since 2013 was declared as null by the PKK following the Turkish airstrikes against the group, narrowing chances of the two sides reaching a deal in the near future.

According to figures published Saturday by Turkey’s state-run Anatolia news agency, some 812 PKK militants have been killed in the campaign while 56 members of the Turkish security forces have lost their lives.

Turkey started its air strikes after a Daesh bomb attack on July 20 left 32 people dead in the southeastern Turkish town of Suruc near Syria border.

The air raids have, however, significantly concentrated on the Kurdish militants.

The PKK has been fighting for an autonomous Kurdish region inside Turkey since the 1980s. The conflict has left tens of thousands of people dead.

Turkey: PKK bomb attack killed Eight Turkish soldiers and many wounded in Turkey’s southeast

August 19, 2015 By administrator

Eight soldiers were killed in the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) bomb attack in the southeastern province of Siirt.

PKK militants remotely detonated a bomb placed on the road linking Şirvan and Pervari districts during the passing of a military patrolling convoy. Several soldiers were also reported to be wounded.

Medical teams from Siirt and its environs were deployed to the area to bring the wounded soldiers to hospital.

PKK intensify attack: Three Turkish soldiers killed more injured in clashes

August 18, 2015 By administrator

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At least three Turkish soldiers were killed in clashes with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in southeastern district of Lice, adding to an already tense situation in the area.
Four Turkish soldiers suffered injuries when a clash broke out between security forces and PKK members on Tuesday afternoon in Diyarbarkır’s Lice district. The soldiers were taken to Diyarbakır Dicle University Hospital by helicopter. One of the soldiers, who was in critical condition, died of injuries sustained despite medical efforts, the military said.
Later on Tuesday, two more soldiers also surrendered to their wounds and died.
The military said reinforcement units, helicopters and a reconnaissance airplane have been dispatched to the area.