Be proportionate in your response to PKK — EU to Turkey

They are being supported by more than 250 specialists, who provide additional communications support, the Express report said.

Turkey is now in the fight against the Islamic State, and it’s unclear what happens next.

In a series of Twitter posts on Wednesday, the HDP wrote that Demirtaş actually said that the incident in two police officers were murdered last month in the Ceylanpınar district of Şanlıurfa “smelled of dirty provocation”, not that the PKK had engaged in “dirty” tactics.

Also on August 2, one Turkish soldier was killed and seven others wounded in a suspected PKK attack in the southeastern Mardin Province.

The Turks did not understand what kind of distant ideological comrades they were dealing with when these comrades last year took hostage 49 Turkish personnel at Turkey’s consulate in Mosul, Iraq’s second biggest city, including the consul general. “So we built from there”.

Originally, the US planned to train around 4,500 Syrian fighters in a program that began in May. And we had a number of steps. If Turkey is genuinely interested in crushing the ISIS, it has no reasons to attack the Kurdish militias who have been the main bulwark against the ISIS in northern Iraq.

Leyla Imret, the mayor of the town of Cizre, tells Vice News that she, too, experienced the tear gas attacks, as well as the use of water cannons and rubber bullets to subdue the mostly Kurdish protesters.

It has become hard for Congress to approve funding legislation for the government by September 30.

That is bound to have put the Obama administration in a tough spot with its Kurdish allies fighting the Islamic State in Syria.

In June’s parliamentary election, his party, the Justice and Development Party (AKP), suffered considerable losses.

“It’s not a long-term, well-planned, well-intentioned anti-terror campaign”.

“The response, however, must be proportionate, targeted and by no means endanger the democratic political dialogue in the country”. Erdogan (mis)calculated that the pro-Kurdish HDP, whose votes in recent elections hovered around 6%, would fail to pass the 10% national threshold required for parliamentary representation.

The Kurds, an ethnic group with their own language and customs, have long sought a homeland.

‘Three more killed by PKK’. Among the many applicants, only few were considered to be reliable. A House version has 37 co-sponsors.

Burak Bekdil, based in Ankara, is a Turkish columnist for the Hürriyet Daily and a Fellow at the Middle East Forum.

“The United States was reticent about this possibility”.

After signing the agreement, the PKK slowly withdrew its fighters to the Kurdish districts of northern Iraq with a view to ending the long-drawn war with Turkey.

“The EU acknowledges that Turkey has the right to prevent and react to any form of terrorism, which must be unequivocally condemned”, he said, without citing the PKK or any Kurdish group by name.