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Breaking News: Kurdish Fighters killed 6 soldiers 7 wounded Car bomb targets Turkish military base

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car-bombOn Sunday, a car bomb targeted a Turkish military base in the district of Semdinli (Shemzinan), Hakkari (Colemerg) Province, southeast of Turkey, security said.

Following the explosion, ambulances rushed to the scene to transfer the wounded to the nearby hospitals.

Six soldiers were killed and seven people, including civilians were injured, security sources said.

Kurdistan24 reporter stated that the car bomb targeted the Durak gendarmerie station, located 20 km (12 miles) from the town of Shemzinan.

So far no group has claimed responsibility for the attack, but Turkey’s state-run media attributed the attack to Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) guerillas.

Semdinli is a mountainous area located near the border of Iraq and Iran in the Province of Colemerg. It is one of the locations where the PKK fighters are active and waged decades of insurgency against the Turkish government.

Kurdish Liberation Army PKK killed 10 Turkish soldiers seven wounded in attacks Turkey’s southeast

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10-killed-7-woundedAt least 10 Turkish soldiers were killed and seven others were wounded on Sept. 26 in two separate attacks by the of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in the country’s southeast.

Six soldiers were killed in an atack on a checkpoint in Şırnak, while four others were killed in a roadside bomb attack in Mardin’s Derik district.

PKK  remotely detonated an explosive placed on the Kızıltepe-Derik motorway during the passing of a civilian-plated minibus carrying soldiers at around 9:20 a.m. near Tepedağ village.

Four soldiers were killed and another six were wounded in the attack, according to initial reports.

The wounded soldiers were transferred to hospitals in Derik and Kızıltepe.

Hous later, six soldiers were killed in the Uludere district of the southeastern province of Şırnak during a clash with PKK , Doğan News Agency has reported.

A number of ambulances were dispatched to the scene for the wounded soldiers at the checkpoint near a prison, Doğan said. One PKK militant was also killed in clashes.

Separately, a bomb planted by PKK hit a freight train in the eastern province of Van on Sept. 25, injuring two personnel and damaging four wagons, the regional governor’s office said.

“The train’s locomotive was damaged and burnt, while four wagons derailed,” a statement by the Van Governor’s Office said.

Earlier, the local railway station directorate in the province’s Saray district told Anadolu Agency that PKK  detonated the bomb when the TCDD-53032 train passed by after it came from the Kapikoy border gate located along the Turkish- Iranian border, 10 kilometers away from Saray.

Meanwhile, a Turkish armed drone “neutralized” at least three PKK  in an airstrike in southeastern Turkey’s Hakkari.

Kurdish Freedom Fighters PKK send another 11 Turkish soldiers body bag to #RT_Erdogan

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Nearly a dozen Turkish soldiers have been killed during separate clean-up operations against Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK)  in Turkey’s restive eastern provinces of Mardin and Van.

Military officials said three soldiers were killed after Kurdish forces attacked a military post in the Dargecit district of Mardin Province, situated about 1,100 kilometers (683 miles) east of the capital, Ankara, on Friday.

The unnamed officials added that three village guards and a civilian also sustained gunshot wounds during the assault.

Separately, eight soldiers lost their lives during fierce exchanges of gunfire with PKK members in a mountainous area of the eastern Turkish province of Van.

The Turkish General Staff also said in a statement that 33 PKK militants had been killed and 30 others injured after Turkish government forces launched a series of aerial and ground operations against the Kurds’ positions in the southeastern Turkish province of Hakkari.

Turkish military forces have been conducting ground operations as well as airstrikes against PKK positions in Turkey’s troubled southeastern border region and Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region over the past year.

The campaign began following the July 2015 bombing in the southern Turkish town of Suruc, which claimed more than 30 civilian lives. Turkish officials held the Takfiri Daesh terrorist group responsible for the act of terror.

PKK militants, who accuse the Ankara government of supporting Daesh, launched a string of supposed reprisal attacks against Turkish security forces after the bomb attack, in turn prompting the Turkish military operations.

The Turkish military recently attacked Kurdish positions inside Syria in a ground incursion as well.

Truck carrying soldiers overturns in Armenia, 8 hospitalized

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military-truckYEREVAN. – A major road accident occurred Monday in the Kotayk Province of Armenia.

A truck, which was transporting soldiers, overturned on the Yerevan-Sevan motorway, and several soldiers were injured.

The Ministry of Defense (MOD) press service informed Armenian News-NEWS.am that eight people, primarily conscripts, were taken to the MOD Central Clinical Military Hospital in capital city Yerevan. According to preliminary data, their injuries are not life-threatening.

The said MOD truck was transporting sixteen soldiers from one place to another.

As per Shamshyan.com, an off-road vehicle was the cause of this accident

 

Soldiers “take over” Artsakh cultural sites, “not what you think”

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Karabakh soldiersThe cultural sites of Artsakh were filled with servicemen. They visited Gandzasar monastery, Tigranakert State Historical and Cultural Reserve from different military units of the frontline.
According to Panorama.am reporter, the soldiers were approaching and getting acquainted to the exhibits, discovered during Tigranakert excavations.

Armenians from the Diaspora admiring the soldiers in the yard of Gandzasar monastery asked to take photos with them.

“We are proud of you,” they said.

Kurdish fighters PKK Killed Five in an ambush Turkish soldiers in southeast Turkey

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pkk-kill-soldiersFive Turkish soldiers were killed by fighters of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in an ambush in the southeast of the country, shaken by regular violence, reported Friday local media.

The soldiers were attacked on the road between the towns of Hakkari and Cukurca, while patrolling in the province of Hakkari, said the Dogan news agency. The agency said eight soldiers were also wounded in the attack occurred near the border with northern Iraq. In July, the Turkish security forces conducted a major military operation targeting Kurdish militants in Hakkari province.

The attacks against the Turkish army have multiplied since late July 2015 cease-fire that had held for two and a half years in the southeast Kurdish majority. Since these attacks have caused hundreds of deaths on the side of security forces.

In recent months, the government has conducted military operations against the PKK to dislodge Kurdish fighters in urban areas. According to activists, civilians are also affected by renewed conflict.

Since the beginning of the PKK uprising in 1984, nearly 40,000 people were killed in the fighting. The PKK is considered a terrorist organization shared by the US and the European Union.

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PKK says 442 Kurdish fighters, 2,982 Turkish police killed since last year

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ppk-kill-turksQANDIL,— Kurdistan Workers’ Party’s (PKK) armed wing, the HPG, has released casualty figures of the past year’s clashes between Kurdish rebels and the Turkish army according to which 442 guerrillas and 2,982 Turkish police and soldiers have been killed.

In a statement issued on Tuesday the HPG also said the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) was “solely accountable” for the war and the destruction of Kurdish cities in the country.

“The AKP government was never committed to the peace process. It started a propaganda war before launching its indiscriminate offensive on July 24, 2015 which led to the total destruction of Kurdistan,” the statement reads and accuses the army of having used “the heaviest weapons with most destructive technology” against Kurdish cities.

According to the released data, the Turkish army has launched 356 land operations, 658 areal bombardments, 1649 heavy artillery shelling, 110 direct clashes since July last year.

The PKK guerrillas have during the same period carried out 1199 “actions”, destroying 386 military vehicles, 15 tanks, 4 Cobra helicopters and targeting 110 military checkpoints.

The numbers of the prisoners are accordingly 16 guerrillas and 13 soldiers and policemen.

The Turkish army has not commented on the figures although it has released different numbers in the past and put the death toll for the guerrillas considerably higher.

The balance sheet released by PKK of war in Turkish Kurdistan cities and towns for the period between 24 July 2015 and 23 July 2016.

The balance sheet for one year is as follows:

Members of state forces killed: 2218
Members of state forces injured: 690
Members of state forces taken prisoner: 2
Armored vehicles destroyed: 457
Armored vehicles damaged: 307
1 Sikorsky helicopter and 1 train were damaged
Drones downed: 65
PKK members martyred: 363
PKK members injured: 15
PKK members taken prisoner: 16
Civilians martyred: 298
Civilians injured: 27

PKK units also seized a large quantity of ammunition from Turkish state forces and destroyed several arms and vehicles belonging to Turkish forces.

Turkey has frequently bombed PKK bases inside Kurdistan region after clashes resumed between Ankara and Kurdish guerrillas in July 2015.

The PKK has some 5,000 guerrilla soldiers stationed mostly in the remote bordering areas of Iraq’s Kurdistan region.

Since July 2015, Turkey initiated a controversial military campaign against the PKK in the country’s southeastern Kurdish region after Ankara ended a two-year ceasefire agreement. Since the beginning of the campaign, Ankara has imposed several round-the-clock curfews, preventing civilians from fleeing regions where the military operations are being conducted.

Observers say the crackdown has taken a heavy toll on the Kurdish civilian population and accuse Turkey of using collective punishment against the minority.

Activists have accused the security forces of causing huge destruction to urban centres and killing Kurdish civilians.

Pro-Kurdish opposition political parties say about 1,000 civilians, mostly Kurds, have perished in the fighting, since the Turkish offensive against the PKK centred in towns and cities in Turkish Kurdistan.

The PKK took up arms in 1984 against the Turkish state, which still denies the constitutional existence of Kurds, to push for greater autonomy for the Kurdish minority who make up around 22.5 million of the country’s 78-million population. A large Turkey’s Kurdish community openly sympathise with PKK rebels.

The PKK statement came only a day after the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party’s (HDP) co-leader Selahettin Demirtas announced that the party intended to initiate talks between the PKK and Ankara after they stalled last year prior to the elections.

Demirtas has said the HDP plans to send two delegations to PKK leadership in Qandil Mountain in the Iraqi Kurdistan and Imrali Island on the Mediterranean coast where the influential PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan is imprisoned and has been rejected to meet his HDP mediator since early last year.

Source: http://ekurd.net/kurdish-fighters-turkish-police-2016-07-28

 

Turks showcasing Turkishness, Thousands of Turkey coup prisoners ‘raped, starved and hogtied’

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Captured Turkish soldiers

BY CHRIS HUGHES,

Turkish troops imprisoned after the failed military coup are being raped, starved and left without water for days, it is claimed.

Many of the 10,000 detainees are locked up in horses’ stables and sports halls – some hogtied in horrific stress positions, according to human rights campaigners.

Amnesty International has called for immediate access to prisoners after the coup a week ago which sparked a brutal crackdown and a three-month state of emergency.

More than 200 died in the uprising which aimed to topple dictatorial President Recep Erdogan – and 1,500 were injured.

Amnesty says it has ‘credible evidence’ Turkish police are holding detainees in stress positions for up to 48 hours, denying them food, water and medical treatment and in the worst cases some have been subjected to severe beatings and torture, including rape.

John Dalhuisen, Amnesty International’s Europe director, said: “Reports of abuse including beatings and rape in detention are extremely alarming, especially given the scale of detentions that we have seen in the past week.

Two lawyers in Ankara working on behalf of detainees told Amnesty International that detainees said they witnessed senior military officers in detention being raped with a truncheon or finger by police officers.

A person on duty at the Ankara Police Headquarters sports hall saw a detainee with severe wounds consistent with having been beaten, including a large swelling on his head.

The detainee could not stand up or focus his eyes and he eventually lost consciousness.

While in some cases detainees were afforded limited medical assistance, police refused to allow this detainee essential medical treatment despite his severe injuries.

The interviewee heard one police doctor on duty say: “Let him die. We will say he came to us dead.”

The same interviewee said 650-800 soldiers were being held in the Ankara police headquarters sports hall – 300 of them with signs of having been beaten.

Source: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/thousands-turkey-coup-prisoners-raped-8485304#ICID=sharebar_twitter

Greek court remands Turkish soldiers

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Turks greece pilotEight Turkish soldiers who fled to Greece by helicopter after the failed coup have been handed suspended prison terms for illegal entry. They remain in custody pending asylum hearings, with Ankara demanding extradition.

A court in Greece’s northern city of Alexandroupoli imposed suspended two-month jail terms Thursday on eight military officers who fled Turkey last Saturday in a high-tech Black Hawk helicopter.

The court acknowledged mitigating circumstances of having acted while under threat. The pilot was acquitted of a charge of violating flight regulations.

The eight are to remain in Greek police custody until their applications for asylum are heard in August.

The case has strained ties between Greece and Turkey, two NATO allies, with Ankara demanding the officers’ return. Turkey has already recovered its aircraft.

One of the Turkish officers told the Alexandroupoli court that the group feared “indiscriminate” arrests if handed over to Turkish authorities.

Another said: “I would not have left Turkey had my life not been threatened.”

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Brought to court Thursday, they kept their faces hidden and declined to give their names. On arrival they were identified by rank as two commanders, four captains and two sergeants.

The court hearing preceded a post-coup sitting of the Turkish parliament. President Tayyip Erdogan was expected to ask lawmakers to endorse sweeping new powers to expand a crackdown.

Already, some 10,000 have been arrested. More than 58,000 civil service employees have been dismissed, forced to resign or have had their licenses revoked.

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Seven Turkish soldiers killed in two PKK attacks in southeast Turkey

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File photo shows Turkish army soldiers standing guard during operations against Kurdish militants southeast of the country. (AFP photo)

File photo shows Turkish army soldiers standing guard during operations against Kurdish militants southeast of the country. (AFP photo)

Two attacks claimed by the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants have killed six Turkish army soldiers in southeast of the country.

Security sources said Sunday that the first attacked killed five soldiers who were traveling in Hakkari Province when a roadside bomb ripped through their military vehicle.

They said PKK militants had planted the bomb on a road along the border with Iraq.

The Turkish army declared an alert for border units while an air-backed operation was launched to find those responsible.

State-run Anadolu agency quoted other military sources as saying that “PKK terrorists” were behind the attack.

In a separate development, Kurdish militants conducted a car bomb attack against a military outpost in the Ercis district of Van province in southeast Turkey, in which one soldier lost his life along with a member of the village guard, Anadolu agency reported.

At least 15 people were injured including 10 soldiers and five village guards during the second attack. Among those wounded, one was seriously injured in the mainly Kurdish province, AFP quoted a Turkish army statement as saying.

Southeastern Turkey has been the scene of deadly fighting between Kurdish militants and the military over the past months. The fighting escalated after Turkey declared the collapse of years-long peace negotiations with the Kurds last year and began imposing restrictions in Kurdish-dominated areas.

Ankara has also intensified attacks on alleged PKK positions in Iraq and Syria, further deepening the unrest inside its territories. The PKK, which mainly operates in the mountainous regions of Iraq, has claimed responsibility for a number of deadly attacks in major Turkish cities over the past months.

Turkey says it has managed to kill thousands of PKK militants in its massive operations in the southeast. Many challenge the figure, saying many of those killed were civilians. Official figures says around 600 Turkish soldiers, police forces and village guards have also been killed since the fighting flared up in July 2015.

Three people, including two soldiers died on Saturday after PKK militants carried out a car bomb attack on a military outpost in southeast Turkey and then opened fire on the facility. The car bombing which targeted the Cevizlik village outpost in Mardin province also injured 23 more soldiers.