President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been playing the security card in the run-up to Sunday's vote with tensions running high over the renewed Turkish conflict and a massive bomb attack blamed on ISIL Takfiris.
Around 200 Turkish police launched a massive dawn swoop on suspected ISIL hideouts in the conservative central Anatolian city of Konya, detaining 30 Takfiris including one woman, media reports said.
Another 14 suspects were arrested in a similar operation in the town of Kocaeli, east of Istanbul, the Anatolia news agency said.
The raids followed a gun battle in a similar operation Monday in the southeastern Kurdish majority city of Diyarbakir which left two policemen and seven ISIL suspects dead.
Turkey has been on the hunt for ISIL extremists since the twin bombings on a peace rally in Ankara on October 10 that killed 102 people and wounded 500 more, the worst such attack on Turkish soil.
Erdogan, an increasingly polarizing figure in Turkey, on Monday vowed to press ahead with operations against all "terrorists" including ISIL and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu also confirmed late Monday that the military had struck Kurdish fighters across the border in northern Syria.
- In an interview with A Haber television, Davutoglu said Turkey had warned members of the Democratic Union Party (PYD) not to cross to the west of the Euphrates river and if they did, Turkey would attack.
"We struck twice," he said, without giving any further details.
Source: AFP
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ReplyDeleteThe Turkish army has hit the Democratic Union Party (PYD) in northern Syria twice for violating the red line Turkey had imposed on the western part of the Euphrates River, the Turkish prime minister has said.
“We have said ‘The PYD will not pass to the west of the Euphrates. We’ll hit them if they do.’ And we did hit them twice. A Syrian helicopter was downed last year. An unmanned aerial vehicle was hit as well. It’s not possible to do anything in Syria despite Turkey,” Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu told private broadcaster A Haber late Oct 26.
Turkey considers the PYD an offshoot of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and therefore as a terrorist organization, unlike the United States and the European Union which see them as a political organization that can cooperate with the anti-ISIL (Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) coalition. Turkey had declared the PYD’s attempt to cross the river and link its cantons in northern Syria was a red line.
Davutoğlu recalled the PYD and the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad had agreed to conspire against Turkey in a meeting on May 28, which was also an indication the PKK decided to cease the Kurdish solution process.
“They should better know this: Afterwards, those in this region who will be on Turkey’s side will win while those who are against Turkey will lose. Everyone should make [their] own calculations accordingly,” he stressed.
“Turkey has not laid all of its cards on the table yet. The picture will be different when it does so. Everyone should watch its steps,” he added.
Davutoğlu said Turkey hit 458 different PKK positions in three days while clearing the Turkish border from ISIL shelters, also in three days, saying, “Those who start such a war against Turkey will bear the consequences.”
The Turkish prime minister also said Turkish Foreign Minister Feridun Sinirlioğlu went to Paris to attend a meeting on Syria before the reunion of key countries in Vienna seeking a formula to end the Syria crisis on Oct. 23...............http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/turkey-hits-pyd-twice-for-crossing-euphrates-pm.aspx?pageID=238&nID=90385&NewsCatID=352
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"Turquía no necesita permiso de nadie para hacer lo que haga falta", remarcó.
Erdogan ha catalogado el apoyo de Occidente a los kurdos como una ayuda al terrorismo y, según la cadena, ha avisado a EEUU que podría desobedecer su demanda de no bombardear al Partido Unión y Democracia (PYD).
"Estamos decididos (a combatir) a todo lo que nos amenace desde el otro lado de la frontera siria", subrayó.
Las autoridades turcas creen que el PYD es el ala siria del proscrito Partido de los Trabajadores del Kurdistán (PKK).
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