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Turkey: Newly appointed district governor dies in hospital after PKK attack in Turkey’s Mardin

November 11, 2016 by administrator

The newly-appointed governor of the Derik district in the southeastern province of Mardin succumbed to his injuries on Nov. 11 in a hospital he was taken to after an armed attack on Nov. 10 carried out by Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants, the Hurriyet Daily News reports.

The appointed district governor, Muhammet Fatih Safitürk, was “martyred,” Gaziantep Gov. Ali Yerlikaya said during an announcement.

The militants attacked the district governor’s office on Nov. 10 with long-barreled weapons, killing Safitürk and wounding two others.

Safitürk, 35, was appointed to the post in September.

Terrorist State of Turkey: Bomb blast rocks governor’s residence in Mardin, Several people have sustained injuries

November 10, 2016 by administrator

People walk past a damaged car after a blast in the Kurdish-dominated southeastern Turkish city of Diyarbakir, Nov. 4, 2016. (Photo by Reuters)

Several people have sustained injuries after a bomb explosion rocked the residence of a district governor in the restive province of Mardin in southeast Turkey on Thursday.

The blast took place in the district of Derik after which several ambulances were sent to the scene of the incident.

It was not immediately clear who was behind the explosion, but Turkey’s Ihlas news agency said the blast had been caused by a rocket attack by Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants.

Ankara has been engaged in a large-scale campaign against PKK militants in its southern border region in the past few months. The Turkish military has been pounding the group’s positions in northern Iraq as well.

Turkey’s operations began in the wake of a deadly July 2015 bombing in the southern town of Suruc. Over 30 people died in the attack, which the Turkish government blamed on Daesh.

After the bombing, PKK militants who accuse the government of supporting Daesh, launched a series of attacks against Turkish police and security forces, prompting the the army to carry out a massive operation in the country’s southeast.

Turkey Kurdish Forces: killed 4 security turkish members , 35 people injured in attacks in SE

March 4, 2016 by administrator

he attack was carried out around 6 a.m. (0400 GMT) by Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants in the town of Nusaybin, near the Syrian border. (Photo: DHA)

Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) detonated a car bomb near a police station in southeastern Turkey on Friday, killing two police officers and injuring 35 people, while on the same day two soldiers were killed by the PKK in the İdil district of Şırnak province.

The attack targeted the traffic police station and lodgings in Mardin‘s Nusaybin district, where the security forces are battling PKK terrorists. Two police officers died at the scene, while 35 people, including police officers and members of their families, were injured in the explosion.

The explosion caused extensive damage to the police lodgings and left a large crater on the road, images published by the private Doğan news agency showed.

According to media reports, two soldiers died during a clash with the PKK in İdil.

A fragile two-year-old settlement process between the Turkish government and the PKK collapsed in late July, reviving a three-decades-old conflict that has killed tens of thousands of people. Hundreds — many of them police officers and soldiers — have died in the renewed fighting.

The attack in Nusaybin comes amid a surge of violence in Turkey.

Last month, a suicide car bombing that targeted buses carrying military personnel in Ankara killed 29 people. The Kurdistan Freedom Falcons (TAK), a Kurdish militant group that is an offshoot of the PKK, claimed responsibility for that attack.

On Thursday, police in İstanbul killed two female militants of the banned far-left group the Revolutionary People’s Liberation Army-Front (DHKP-C), who had hidden inside a building after attacking police with gunfire and a hand grenade.

Turkey: Killed police officer leaves letter behind, doesn’t want Erdoğan or Davutoglu to attend funeral

September 3, 2015 by administrator

Hakkari on Wednesday. (Photo: DHA)

Mehmet Akif Hatunoğlu, one of four police officers who were killed on Thursday when explosives planted by Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) terrorists were detonated as they passed by, left behind a letter stating he does not want President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan or interim Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu to attend his funeral.
The slain police officers — İbrahim Halil Aksoy, Mehmet Hüseyin Balta, Ahmet Akalın and Hatunoğlu — were traveling in a vehicle in the Dargeçit district of southeastern province of Mardin on Thursday morning, when the terrorist staged the bomb attack against the vehicle.
According to media reports, the attacked police vehicle was patrolling the district on Thursday morning to ensure the security of firefighters who were trying to extinguish a fire in an educational institution in the district that was started earlier by the PKK. Security forces have launched a large-scale operation in the district to capture those perpetrators who fled the scene following the bomb attack. Report by Zaman
Security forces later found a letter of testamentary on Hatunoğlu. In the letter, Hatunoğlu says if he is killed, he does not want Erdoğan, Davutoğlu, any ministers, deputies or governors to attend his funeral ceremony as the state officials turned a blind eye to PKK terrorist acts during the settlement process launched in 2012 to end Turkey’s long-standing Kurdish problem.
Expressing his love for his family, wife and daughter, the slain policeman also says he firstly entrusts his daughter to his wife and then his parents, but will never entrust his daughter to the state.

The bomb blast in the Dargeçit district of Mardin is the latest in a succession of frequent attacks against security forces by PKK terrorists since a two-year-long cease-fire ended in July, leaving in tatters the settlement process launched by the government with imprisoned PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan to end the Kurdish problem.
Furthermore, two other police officers were injured in another terrorist attack staged by the PKK in Mardin province on Wednesday night. The terrorists detonated mines planted on a road in the Derik district of Mardin while a vehicle carrying a group of police officers was passing by. According to media reports, two police officers were slightly injured and are receiving treatment at Derik State Hospital.
Turkish warplanes also bombed PKK targets on Wednesday after one soldier was killed in the same region. State media said 20 militants were killed in those air strikes.
More than 70 members of the security forces have been killed since the PKK attacks began. The media says more than 900 PKK militants have been killed in that period in southeast Turkey and Iraq, where the terrorist PKK has bases.

Turkish Mayor Apologizing to the ARMENIANS, Assyrians, Yezidis

December 16, 2014 by administrator

December 16, 2014

During an event held in Sweden, the mayor of the Turkish city of Mardin, Ahmet Turk apologize to the Armenians, the Assyrians and the Yezidies for the fact that certain Kurdish ahirets had been accomplices during the Genocide of 1915, report the Turkish Demokrathaber.net report “Armenpress”.

“Unfortunately, the Kurds, who implemented and executed the government’s decision taken in 1914-1915, were overtly used under the name of Islam. We now feel the bitterness about the participation of our fathers and forefathers in those Massacres as their children and grandchildren,” Ahmet Turk mentioned, adding that the Kurds will never forget the pain that those nations experienced, “We as Armenians and Assyrians and our Yezidi brothers to forgive us, “the Mayor of Mardin Said.

Armenian Genocide

In 1915, leaders of the Turkish government set in motion a plan to expel and massacre Armenians living in the Ottoman Empire. Though reports vary, most sources agree that there were about 2 million Armenians in the Ottoman Empire at the time of the massacre. By the early 1920s, when the massacres and deportations finally ended, some 1.5 million of Turkey’s Armenians were dead, with many more forcibly removed from the country. Today, most historians call this event a genocide–a premeditated and systematic campaign to exterminate an entire people. However, the Turkish government does not acknowledge the enormity or scope of these events. Despite pressure from Armenians and social justice advocates throughout the world, it is still illegal in Turkey to talk about what happened to Armenians during this era.

THE ROOTS OF GENOCIDE: THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE

The Armenian people have made their home in the Caucasus region of Eurasia for some 3,000 years. For some of that time, the kingdom of Armenia was an independent entity–at the beginning of the 4th century AD, for instance, it became the first nation in the world to make Christianity its official religion–but for the most part, control of the region shifted from one empire to another. During the 15th century, Armenia was absorbed into the mighty Ottoman Empire.

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