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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> David Johnson [mailto:davidjohnson1451@comcast.net] <br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, July 27, 2015 2:56 PM<br><b>To:</b> davidjohnson1451@comcast.net<br><b>Subject:</b> Turkish government have launched air strikes in Syria and Iraq against the Kurdish Worker's Party PKK. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Turkish government have launched air strikes in Syria and Iraq against the Kurdish Worker's Party PKK. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The Winners of Turkey’s National Elections: The Kurds! <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Critics argue that the operation has failed to push back against the Sunni extremist group as they continue to gain territory in both Syria and Iraq. More than 200,000 people have died so far in the Syrian civil war. According to the United Nations and other aid groups, there are at least 11 million displaced Syrians, at least one million Syrian refugees in Turkey and another million in Lebanon. Hundreds of thousands are also in neighboring countries such as Jordan and Egypt. In a recent development, the Turkish government have launched air strikes in Syria and Iraq against the Islamic State group and the Kurdish Worker's Party PKK. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>However, the Turkish government has been accused over the past several years of turning a blind eye to the expansion of the extremist group south of its borders as an indirect plan for supporting insurgency against the Syrian government. In fact, a pro-government Turkish journalist said in a tweet Saturday that Turkey was in the process in a limited operation against the Islamic State group, while being in a comprehensive operation against the leftist PKK group. Kurdish forces have been the main local forces in Iraq and Syria who have managed so far, depending only on their own resources, to deal major blows to the Islamic State group and take back towns and territories from them. Therefore, critics of the Turkish government argue that the recent operation against the PKK is meant to weaken the Kurdish resistance against the Islamic State group and other anti-Assad insurgencies in Syria. RELATED: In Turkey, a Perfect Storm Gathers on the Horizon<br><br>This content was originally published by teleSUR <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>