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Diyarbakir: Bombing kills one, injures 7 Turkish soldiers

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diyarbkir bombA car bomb explosion targeting a police vehicle in Turkey’s southeastern province of Diyarbakir has left one officer dead and seven other people wounded.

The blast took place on Tuesday when the armored police vehicle was passing close to a state hospital in Diyarbakir’s Dicle district.

An unidentified security source said a police officer who suffered serious injuries died at the hospital, while another officer and six civilians were being treated for injuries. The explosion also damaged buildings in Dicle.

No individual or group has claimed responsibility for Tuesday’s bombing but Turkey’s state-run Anadolu news agency blamed the incident on the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militant group, which has been fighting for an autonomous Kurdish region in southeastern Turkey since 1984.

A shaky ceasefire between Ankara and the PKK that had stood since 2013 was declared null and void by the militants following the Turkish strikes against the group.

Ankara has been engaged in a large-scale anti-PKK campaign in its southern border region over the past few months. The Turkish military has also been pounding the group’s positions in northern Iraq in breach of the Arab country’s sovereignty.

Turkey’s operations began in the wake of a deadly July 2015 bombing in the southern town of Suruc, which the Turkish government blamed on the Takfiri Daesh terrorist group.

After the bombing, the PKK militants, who accuse Ankara of supporting Daesh, engaged in a series of reprisal attacks against Turkish police and security forces, prompting the Turkish military operations.

Kurdish PKK killed Six Turkish soldiers in attacks in Turkey’s southeast

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Six soldiers were killed on June 24 in two separate  Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) attacks in the Çukurca district of the southeastern province of Hakkari and the Derik district of the southeastern province of Mardin.

The Turkish General Staff announced that PKK detonated a hand-made explosive placed on the Hakkari-Çukurca motorway, killing four soldiers.

Gendarmerie Specialized Sgt. Ali Danyar, Gendarmerie NCO Mustafa Gevrek, Specialized Sgt. Karun Koçak and Gendarmerie Specialized Sgt. Kerim Örtücü lost their lives in the attack.

An air-supported operation was begun following the attack.

In a separate attack, a group of PKK  opened fire on the Soğukkuyu Gendarmerie Post in the morning hours, triggering an armed clash. An additional team of reinforcements was also deployed to the post from the district center.

NCO Mustafa Ayna, 29, and Specialized Sgt. Oğuz Emre Erkoç, 36, were killed in an ambush as the reinforcements arrived at the area.

A wide-scale operation has begun in the region to apprehend the militants.

Meanwhile, one civilian was killed and another 16, including military personnel, were wounded on June 23 in a PKK car bomb attack in the Ömerli district of Mardin, the governor’s office has announced.

PKK militants remotely detonated a bomb-laden car at the entrance to the Ömerli Gendarmerie Post at around 8:25 p.m. A truck driver identified as Halil İbrahim Sevimli, who was passing near the post, was killed while five people were wounded in the attack, a statement by the Mardin Governor’s Office said.

Eleven military personnel and their relatives inside the military lodgings were slightly injured due to broken glass. The wounded were taken to hospitals in Mardin and Ömerli for treatment, the office said.

The explosion also created a hole on the Ömerli-Midyat motorway which was later closed to traffic.

Source: hurriyetdaily

Crimea honors Russian soldiers with statue

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crimea russiaCrimean officials have unveiled a statue of an armed soldier in celebration of Russian troops that took control of the peninsula from Ukraine. Governor Sergey Aksyonov pledged to keep developing the troops’ “brand.”

The monument marks the “strength, calm, confidence and politeness of our Russian soldiers,” said Moscow envoy Oleg Belaventsev at the Simferopol ceremony.

Crimean officials unveiled the sculpture one day ahead of Russia Day on Sunday. It shows a serviceman with a Kalashnikov, a little girl giving him flowers, and a cat rubbing against his legs.

The bronze statue celebrates the 2014 annexation of Crimea, when unmarked Russian soldiers appeared on the peninsula ahead of a vote to join Russia. Local residents dubbed them “polite people” due to their reserved demeanor.

The mostly peaceful annexation of the region served as a prelude to the violent conflict in eastern Ukraine. Some 9,400 people have died during the 26-month conflict in Ukraine.

A Russian soldier who took part in the takeover also posed for the statue in downtown Simferopol, sculptor Salavat Shcherbakov told the AFP news agency.

The cat, according to the sculptor, shows “that peaceful life has not been interrupted.”

“There was one aim: to defend people, so there was no bloodshed,” he said of the soldiers.

Crimean leader Sergey Aksyonov expressed his belief that the monument would become popular among residents and tourists.

“These soldiers have created the image of ‘polite people’ so now we have our very own Crimean brand,” he said, according to “Noviy Krim” newspaper.

Aksyonov also vowed to keep developing the brand on the peninsula.

The statue was funded by private donations, and cost around five million rubles ($76,500 or 68,000 euros) to create and install, according to the sculptor.

dj/sms (AFP, dpa, Interfax)

Turkey: PKK clashes leave three soldiers dead in southeast Turkey

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3 turkish soldier killedA series of fresh clashes between Turkish army and militants from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) have claimed the lives of at least three soldiers in the country’s restive southeast over the past 24 hours.

Turkish military said in a statement on Monday that two soldiers were killed in the Kurdish-dominated province of Sirnak, while another lost his life in neighboring Siirt Province near the Iraqi border.

Turkish officials say a member of its special operations police was among those killed.

The statement added that two PKK militants were killed in the ongoing high-scale military operation across the volatile region.

This comes days after six Turkish soldiers were killed in a bomb attack ripping through a military convoy in the Kurdish-dominated Van Province On May 24. Also on May 18, a bomb attack on military vehicles in the town of Semdinli in Hakkari Province killed four soldiers and wounded nine others.

Turkish sources blamed members of the PKK militant group for the attacks.

The Turkish military has launched large-scale military operations against the PKK militants in its southern border region since last summer. The government has imposed curfew in the areas that have been targeted in the army’s anti-PKK campaign.

The Turkish military has also been pounding the PKK positions in northern Iraq.

Ankara’s operations against PKK began in the wake of a deadly July 2015 bombing in the southern town of Suruc. More than 30 people died in the attack, with the Turkish government blaming the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group for the attack.

Following the bombing, the PKK militants, who accuse the government in Ankara of supporting Daesh, engaged in a series of reprisal attacks against Turkish police and security forces, prompting the Turkish military operations.

A shaky ceasefire between Ankara and the PKK that had stood since 2013 was declared null and void by the militants following the Turkish strikes against the group. The PKK has been fighting for an autonomous Kurdish region in southeastern Turkey since 1984. The conflict has left thousands of people dead.

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

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

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.

Artak Zeynalyan: Families of beheaded soldiers by Azerbaijan apply to ECHR

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f571e17d73f47b_571e17d73f4b8.thumbA group of lawyers and human rights defenders applied to the European Court for Human Rights (ECHR) against Azerbaijan on behalf of the families of soldiers killed and then beheaded on the night of April 1-2, 2016 during the military operations on the Line of Contact between Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan, informs lawyer Artak Zeynalyan.

According to him, they applied to the ECHR to recognize violations against them through inhuman treatment, disrespect of the private lives of the victims, as well as national discrimination.

“On April 9 and 15, 2016, the ECHR registered the complaints and notified the representatives of the plaintiffs. In their own initiative, the ECHR labeled these complaints anonymous restricting public access to decisions and other documents within the framework of these proceedings. In these circumstances, the plaintiffs and their representatives cannot provide full public access on the information. Any violations of the rules of the proceedings is considered an abuse of rights and can lead to cancelation of examination by the Court.

Considering the above mentioned, we ask the journalists and others to refrain from questions on the cases to the families of the victims and their representatives, as well as publication of unverified information to avoid harming the proceedings. We ensure that the representatives of the plaintiffs will provide necessary information in good faith and in accordance with the rules of the Court,” says Zeynalyan in a statement.

 

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Kurdish forces PKK: Neutralized 3 Turkish Soldiers in Country’s East

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1031065518According to media reports, a bomb attack carried out by the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militant group in Turkey’s eastern province of Tunceli has claimed the lives of three Turkish soldiers.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) – A bomb attack carried out by the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militant group in Turkey’s eastern province of Tunceli on Friday has claimed the lives of three Turkish soldiers, local media reported.

Turkish soldiers had been inside a military vehicle when the attack happened, the Anadolu news agency said.

Turkish aircraft that had been sent to the scene for reinforcement, opened fire on the militants of the PKK group, which is deemed a terrorist organization in the country, according to the media outlet.

The Turkish army has launched a military operation over the incident, the agency added.

Since summer 2015, clashes between the Turkish government and the PKK have claimed the lives of over 350 soldiers and police officers, according to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

President Sargsyan: You again showed everyone who Armenian soldier is “Photos Video”

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YEREVAN. – You have once again demonstrated to everyone who the Armenian soldier is, who the soldier of the homeland is. When there is a need to battle, you become the most disciplined, the most resourceful, and the most combat-ready soldier.

President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan on Tuesday noted the abovementioned in his remarks at a military unit of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR/Artsakh) Defense Army.

“Times are changing, the means to war are changing, but the moral and psychological qualities remain the same; they remain the same and win,” Sargsyan noted, in particular, the Presidential Press Office informed Armenian News-NEWS.am.

Subsequently, presidents of the two Armenian republics visited the Central Military Hospital in the NKR capital city of Stepanakert, where Junior Sergeant Vrezh Bznuni, who has been awarded the Medal of Bravery, is undergoing treatment.

The President of Armenia handed this high state award to the military serviceman, thanked him, and wished the soldier a speedy recovery.

Presidents Serzh Sargsyan and Bako Sahakyan also paid visits to the other serviceman receiving treatment at the military hospital.