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Kurdish forces PKK killed Six Turkish security personnel 12 were wounded in attacks southeast Turkey

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A total of six security personnel were killed and 12 were wounded in attacks by the  Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in the Nusaybin and Midyat districts of the southeastern province of Mardin and the Ovacık district of the eastern province of Tunceli on May 26.

PKK  detonated a homemade bomb in Nusaybin, leaving one specialized sergeant and one police officer , identified as Uğur Yıldız, dead. Nine other security forces were wounded and taken to the Nusaybin State Hospital.

A security operation was opened to apprehend the suspects responsible for the attack.

Meanwhile, two security personnel were wounded during clashes with PKK  in Ovacık. One of the injured personnel later succumbed to his injuries.

Special forces were deployed to the scene following the clashes.

On May 25, one soldier and two village guards were killed in a PKK car bomb attack in the Midyat district.

PKK militants detonated a bomb-laden car in the Anıtlı village after security personnel at the Anıtlı Gendarmerie Post spotted the approach of a suspicious car at around 7:30 p.m.

Gendarmerie Sgt. Salih Yıldırım and two village guards, identified as Tahsin Demir and Şehmus Boru, were killed in the explosion.

Two soldiers were also wounded and were receiving treatment at the Mardin State Hospital. One of the wounded soldiers was in a critical condition, according to a statement by the General Staff.

Meanwhile, the Mardin Governor’s Office said in a statement that two PKK militants inside the car were also killed in the blast.

A wide-scale operation has begun in the region to apprehend PKK militants responsible for the attack.

May/26/2016

Russia killed 28,000 militants in Syria, third of all ISIS forces – Russian deputy security chief

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Russia-isis killedSince Moscow started its air operation in Syria on September 30 last year, the Russian Air Force has eliminated over a third of Islamic State fighters in the country, the deputy head of Russia’s top security body revealed.

“We estimate that at the beginning of our operation Al-Nusra Front and Islamic State [IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL] possessed about 80,000 fighters, of whom 28,000 (35 percent) have already been eliminated. This is [the result of] our actions together with the Syrian Army,” Evgeny Lukyanov said at the VII international security summit being held in Grozny, the capital of Russia’s Chechen Republic.

“Well, the [US-led anti-terrorist] coalition eliminated an additional 5,000 in two years,” Lukyanov added.

“There were people predicting that it [Russia’s anti-terrorist operation in Syria] would result in another Afghanistan or something like that. That would never be. There are only limited military plans,” Lukyanov said, stressing that Syrians “must solve their issues for themselves.”

The principle task of the Russian operation in Syria has been to force the sides to start a political dialogue, the Russian Security Council’s top official stressed.

A deal is needed, and arrangements must be made through compromise,” Lukyanov added. “There are no victors in a civil war, everybody loses.”

The war in Syria has witnessed a turning point, Lukyanov also said.

“Only those politically motivated could deny that fact or interpret it differently.”

However, judging by the reaction of certain parties on the Syrian battlefield and the aggressive actions of intransigent opposition, “they would like very much to wreck the settlement process.”

Turkey: Kurdish forces PKK killed Four Turkish soldiers in attacks, ops in southeast Turkey

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Four soldiers were killed and nine were wounded on May 19 in two separate attacks by the  Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in the southeastern provinces of Van and Mardin.

PKK  clashed with security forces on the Gürpınar-Edremit motorway in Van after authorities received intelligence that militants were planning to place explosives on the road.

Two soldiers were initially wounded in the fight, with one specialized sergeant succumbing to his injuries and the other still receiving treatment.

Reinforcements were deployed to the area as the road was closed to traffic. In the afternoon hours, another soldier was killed after an armored vehicle heading to the region to support the operations crashed.

In a separate attack in the Nusaybin district of the southeastern province of Mardin, PKK  detonated a hand-made explosive in the Yenişehir neighborhood.

Ten soldiers were injured in the attack, three of them critically. However, one of the soldiers later succumbed to his injuries at the Nusaybin State Hospital.

Anti-PKK security operations in the district are ongoing.

May/19/2016

Karabakh: Armenian soldier killed amid Sargsyan-Aliyev meeting

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soldier-karabakh-border-696x464Military authorities in the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) said an Armenian soldier was killed overnight as an internationally mediated meeting between the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan aimed at reinforcing the ceasefire regime in the conflict zone was in progress in Vienna, Austria.

According to the NKR Defense Ministry, 20-year-old conscript Khachatur Harutyunyan was fatally wounded at 00:50 Yerevan time at one of the positions in the southern direction of the line of contact with Azerbaijan.

The Karabakh side accused Azerbaijan of continuing to violate the terms of the April 5 verbal agreement on cease-fire on the night of May 17 by using firearms of different calibers as well as armored vehicle guns, mortars and grenade-launchers.

Particularly intensive ceasefire violations were reported in the southern (Hadrut) and eastern (Martuni) directions.

“The NKR Defense Ministry states that the whole responsibility for the consequences of the situation in the frontline lies with the Azerbaijani side,” the statement said.

Meanwhile, Azerbaijan’s Defense Ministry also reported a casualty near Karabakh overnight, accusing the Armenian side of violating the ceasefire. In a statement the military authorities in Baku also reportedly stressed the circumstance that the Azerbaijani serviceman was killed shortly after the Vienna meeting.

President Serzh Sargsyan of Armenia and President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan reportedly agreed late on Monday to respect ceasefire in the conflict zone and soon resume internationally mediated talks aimed at finding a peaceful solution to the dispute.

Kurdish forces PKK killed 6 Turkish soldiers, 2 gunship pilots in SE Turkey

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thumbs_b_c_c7c928318fb937e10123fddf7798dec5Soldiers were killed in clashes with PKK , while pilots died when their helicopter crashed in Hakkari province,

Six soldiers and two gunship helicopter pilots were Killed in southeastern Hakkari province Friday morning, Turkish military said.

Turkish General Staff said in a statement that six soldiers were Killed and eight others were injured at 4.50 a.m. (0150GMT) in clashes with PKK  at the Cigli military zone in Hakkari’s Cukurca district.

Less than an hour later, a gunship helicopter was sent to the region in response to the clash, but it crashed due to a technical fault, killing two pilots, the statement added.

Armenian serviceman killed by Azerbaijani bullet in Nagorno-Karabkakh

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f57341015bc94e_57341015bc985.thumbA serviceman of Nagorno-Karabakh’s Defense Army was fatally wounded in a northern military unit on Friday night, amid intensive ceasefire violations incited by Azerbaijan’s armed forces.
The escalation increased on the frontline after 7:30 Yerevan time as the adversary released fire from weapons of different calibers, grenade- and mine-launchers in violation of the recently agreed verbal truce.
The deceased serviceman is reported to be Armen H Martirosyan, 20.
A probe has been launched into the incident.
In its official statement released Thursday morning, the Ministry shares the heavy grief of the loss, extending its solidarity to the family and fellow servicemen of the deceased.
The Ministry says that its Defense Army’s frontline military units managed to silence the adversary thanks to adequate retaliatory operations.

Kurdish forces PKK Neutralize 4 Turkish soldiers 14 wounded

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n_98599_1Terror attacks in two seperate Turkish provinces in the southeast killed five soldiers and two police officers over the weekend.

Two police officers were killed in a bomb attack on a police headquarters in the southeastern province of Gaziantep on the morning of May 1, Gov. Ali Yerlikaya has confirmed.

At least 18 policemen and four civilians were injured in the suspected car bomb attack that was carried out around 9:20 a.m.

Private broadcaster CNNTürk reported that the blast occurred in front of the barriers of the headquarters.

Two cars entered the area in front of the headquarters and started firing with automatic weapons, with police responding to the attack, reported daily Hürriyet.

One of the cars managed to escape, while the second car exploded, according to reports. The police have begun a search to apprehend the other car involved in the attack.

Footage from a CNNTürk broadcast showed pieces of a wrecked vehicle near the station’s gates, several ambulances and fire brigade trucks at the scene of the blast, which it said was felt from kilometers away.

The wounded were taken to a hospital, where one police officer succumbed to his injuries.

Security measures were increased in front of the aforementioned hospital.

Armored police teams and ambulances were sent to the area, as buildings surrounding the station were evacuated by the police after the attack.

Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu said investigations into the attack are ongoing.

“We’ve reached significant information, but the Interior Ministry will make the necessary statement in due course,” Davutoğlu said.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has received information about the attack from Interior Minister Efkan Ala and spoken on the phone with Governor Ali Yerlikaya, according to presidential sources.

Meanwhile, four Turkish soldiers were killed and 14 were wounded on separate May 1 attacks by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in the southeastern provinces of Mardin and Şırnak, according to reports.

Three soldiers were killed and 14 were wounded during a military operation in the Nusaybin district of the southeastern province of Mardin, the Turkish Armed Forces said in a statement.

The attack in the town, where a number of neighborhoods are under curfew and operations have been ongoing since March 14, came as the soldiers were detonating a bomb placed by the militants on Nusaybin’s Çağçağ Street.

Three soldiers, identified as gendarmerie specialized sergeants Serdar Yıldırım, Sinan Oruç and Hakan Duygal, were killed in the attack, according to the official statement by the Chief of Staff.

The wounded soldiers were brought to state hospitals in Nusaybin and central Mardin, according to reports.
In a separate attack on the same day, a soldier was heavily wounded after being hit by a PKK sniper during an operation in Şırnak’s İsmetpaşa neighborhood.

The injured soldier, whose identity was yet to be disclosed when Hürriyet Daily News went to press, was promptly transferred with an armored ambulance to Şırnak State Hospital, where he later succumbed to his wounds.

The attack came one day after the army announced that an army captain was shot dead by a PKK sniper in Nusaybin.

Captain Alper Kalem was wounded in clashes that erupted when a group of soldiers were trying to remove bombs on the streets at 7 a.m. local time on April 30.

Kalem was taken to hospital but later succumbed to his wounds.

Meanwhile, in the same neighborhood two police officers and one soldier were injured in a rocket attack on an armored vehicle.

Early on April 30, the military had stated that Turkish warplanes destroyed PKK targets in northern Iraq.

It said four F-16 and 14 F-4 jets carried out the raids on positions in Kandil, Hakkurk and Avasin between 23:00 p.m. and 1:40 a.m. local time.

It added that a pair of F-4 warplanes also carried out two airstrikes on PKK bases in the rural Güneycam area of the southeastern Turkish province of Şırnak.

Karabakh soldier killed in Azerbaijani fire

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210579On Tuesday, April 19, at around 9:50am, a Karabakh serviceman, Gavorg Gevorgyan (b. 1996) was killed in Azerbaijani fire.

An investigation into the details of the incident is underway, the Nagorno Karabakh Defense Ministry said.

On the night of April 1-2, Azerbaijani armed forces initiated overt offensive operations in the southern, southeastern and northeastern directions of the line of contact with Nagorno Karabakh.

The Armenian side has suffered 77 combat and 15 non-combat losses, 122 more were wounded. One soldier is still missing.

The Azerbaijani side has lost 26 tanks and 4 infantry fighting vehicles, as well as 1 BM-21 Grad multipl e rocket launcher, 1 engineering vehicle, 2 military helicopters and 14 unmanned aerial vehicles. The Azerbaijani side has admitted the loss of 31 fighters, 1 helicopter and 1 unmanned drone, whereas the Armenian side’s photo and video materials show dozens of killed Azerbaijani troops, 1 helicopter and 3 UAVs. Opposition media outlets, however, reported on the death of 95 Azerbaijani soldiers, stating that 39 more have been wounded. According to Karabakh authorities, 300 Azerbaijani soldiers were killed in clashes.

14 Karabakh tanks have been neutralized since April 2.

The parties to the Karabakh conflict agreed on a bilateral cessation of fire along the contact line which came into force at midday, April 5.

The conflict between Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan

The conflict between Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan broke out as result of the ethnic cleansing launched by the Azeri authorities in the final years of the Soviet Union. The Karabakh War was fought from 1991 (when the Nagorno Karabakh Republic was proclaimed) to 1994 (when a ceasefire was sealed by Armenia, NKR and Azerbaijan). Most of Nagorno Karabakh and a security zone consisting of 7 regions are now under control of NKR defense army. Armenia and Azerbaijan are holding peace talks mediated by the OSCE Minsk Group up till now.

Kurdish PKK Forces killed 6 Turkish soldiers , 54 wounded in attacks in Turkey’s southeast

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Six soldiers were killed and 56 others were wounded in individual attacks by the  Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and in clashes between security forces and the militants in the southeastern provinces of Şırnak, Hakkari,Diyarbakır and Mardin on April 11 and 12.

The Turkish General Staff announced that one soldier was killed due to an unknown explosion during clashes with PKK  in the Dağlıca district of Hakkari, while four soldiers were wounded. One of the injured soldiers is reported to be in a critical condition, according to the statement.

Additionally, one soldier was killed during clashes with PKK  in Şırnak, while three others were wounded.

Reports of a third attack emerged late April 12 when two soldiers were killed and two others were wounded in an explosion in southeastern Mardin’s Nusaybin district.

Meanwhile, two soldiers were killed and 47 were wounded, including civilians, late April 11 in a PKK bomb attack in the Hani district of Diyarbakır.

PKK  detonated a bomb-laden tanker in front of the Hani Gendarmerie Post, after which an armed clash erupted between security forces and PKK .

The relatives of gendarmerie personnel in the lodgings were among the wounded, the General Staff said in a statement.

The wounded were first taken to Hani State Hospital and later transferred to the Diyarbakır Military Hospital by helicopter and ambulance.

A significant portion of the military post collapsed due to the attack while other buildings nearby were also damaged as search and rescue efforts in the buildings continued.

The Hani Criminal Court of Peace ordered a broadcast ban until the completion of the investigation following the attack.

Kurdish forces PKK: neutralized Two Turkish soldiers 46 wounded in bomb attack & military post collapsed

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n_97668_1Two soldiers were killed and 46 were wounded, including civilians, on late April 11 in an  Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) bomb attack in the Hani district of the southeastern province of Diyarbakır.

PKK forces detonated a bomb-laden tanker in front of the Hani Gendarmerie Post. An armed clash later erupted between security forces and PKK forcess

Two soldiers were killed and 46 were wounded including the relatives of gendarmerie personnel in the lodgings.

The wounded were first taken to Hani State Hospital and later transferred to the Diyarbakır Military Hospital by helicopter and ambulance.

A significant portion of the military post collapsed due to the attack while other buildings nearby were also damaged as the search and rescue efforts in the buildings continued.

Meanwhile, the Hani Criminal Court of Peace ordered a broadcast ban until the completion of the investigation following the attack.