PKK rocket attack kills Turkish police officer

Kurdish people hold flags and pictures of jailed Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) during a demonstration calling for his release in Beirut.

Kurdish people hold flags and pictures of jailed Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) during a demonstration calling for his release in Beirut.


A Turkish police officer was killed and two wounded when suspected Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants fired a rocket at their armored vehicle in the town of Nusaybin near the southeastern border with Syria, security sources said on Sunday.

Turkey’s predominantly Kurdish southeast has been engulfed in its worst violence since the 1990s after a two-year ceasefire between the state and PKK, which has waged a three-decade insurgency for Kurdish autonomy, collapsed last July.

The conflict has complicated international efforts to end the war in neighboring Syria.

Ankara says the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia, which has won U.S. support in the fight against ISIS, has deep ties to the PKK and fears that its territorial gains in northern Syria will stoke Kurdish separatism inside Turkey.

The PKK, considered a terrorist group by Turkey, the United States and the European Union, launched a separatist armed rebellion against the Turkish state in 1984 in a conflict that has killed more than 40,000 people, mostly Kurds.

PKK fighters have sealed off entire districts of some towns and cities in the southeast and declared autonomy, prompting the security forces to step up their operations.


[wpResize]





    Fugitive Lebanese singer turned-militant receives five-year jail term
    Russia: Syrian town of Tel Abyad attacked
    Powered by : © 2014 Systron Micronix :: Leaders in Web Hosting. All rights reserved

    | About Us | Privacy Policy | Terms of Use | Disclaimer | Contact Us |