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<h1><big>Turkey bombs Kurdish PKK rebel positions, Kobani inaction
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<p><big><big><big>Turkish warplanes have bombed Kurdistan Workers’
Party (PKK) targets near the country’s border with Iraq. The
strikes highlight rising tensions in Turkey over Ankara’s
perceived unwillingness to aid besieged Kurdish fighters in
the Syrian town of Kobani.</big></big></big></p>
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<p><big><big><big> The Turkish General Staff dispatched F-16 and F-4
jets to the southeastern village of Daglica in Hakkari
province on Monday, the Turkish daily Hurriyet reports.
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<p><big><big><big> The daily says the airstrikes caused <em>“heavy
damage”</em> to the PKK.
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<p><big><big><big> The PKK's military wing, however, said in a
statement on its website that its forces had not suffered
casualties during the strikes, Reuters reports.
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<p><big><big><big> Turkey says the bombings came in response to
three days of attacks on the Daglıca military guard post
with rocket-propelled grenades and heavy machine guns. PKK
insurgents for their part blamed the Turkish military of
violating the ceasefire.
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<p><big><big><big> Monday’s strikes were the first to be conducted
since the Kurdish rebel group declared <a
href="http://rt.com/news/pkk-kurds--turkey-ceasefire-722/"
target="_blank">a ceasefire</a> with Turkey in March 2013.
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<p><big><big><big> The incident underlines simmering anger among
Kurds in southeastern Turkey over Ankara’s failure to
intervene against so-called Islamic State (IS) militants,
who launched a massive offensive on the predominately
Kurdish town of Kobani – not far from Syria’s border with
Turkey – on September 16.
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<p><big><big><big> At least 35 people were killed throughout
Turkey’s Kurdish majority south-eastern provinces last week
after protests against Ankara’s inaction descended into
violent street clashes.
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set fire to a barricade set up to block the street as they
clash with riot police in Diyarbakir October 7,
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<p><big><big><big> Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of PKK, has
threatened to call off peace talks to end nearly three
decades of insurgency if Ankara does not act by Wednesday.
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<p><big><big><big> Meanwhile, a <em>"symbolic"</em> amount of
military supplies sent from Iraqi Kurdistan to Syrian Kurds
is stuck in Syria’s northeast after Turkey refused to open
an aid corridor, German daily Deutsche Welle cites Syrian
Kurdish official Alan Othman as saying on Tuesday.
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<p><big><big><big> <em>"It is a symbolic shipment that has remained
in the Jazeera canton,"</em> Othman said, using the
Kurdish name for northeastern Syria.
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<p><big><big><big> On Monday, Turkish officials denied a previous
announcement by the Obama administration that Ankara had
authorized US fighter jets to use the Incirlik Airbase as a
launching point to conduct bombing campaigns against IS
(Islamic State) militants.
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<p><big><big><big> Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that
any military operations conducted from its territory should
be done with an aim of removing Syrian president Bashar
Assad from power.
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<p><big><big><big> Earlier this month, Erdogan said that IS and the
PKK are equally worthy of contempt in the eyes of Turkey.
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<p><big><big><big> <em>"It is wrong to consider them [IS and PKK]
in different ways,”</em> Erdogan said. <em>“We need to
handle them all together on a common ground."</em></big></big></big>
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