Car bombing in southeast Turkey kills 2 soldiers

According to Turkish Press Office, US and Turkey will discuss to determine which military base to use to launch strikes on ISIS and PKK targets, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Saturday.

The prime ministry statement said the operation targeted PKK camps, shelters, caves and logistics points located in the mountainous northern Iraq region. “Any action taken should avoid the risk of endangering the ceasefire and the Kurdish peace process that remains the best opportunity in a generation to solve a conflict that has claimed far too many lives”.

Backed by the US-led coalition air strikes against Islamic State, the YPG controls as much as half of Syria’s 800-kilometre border with Turkey, and Ankara is determined to prevent the Kurds creating an independent state in the north of Syria. “There is no PKK in Rojava”, he said, using the name applied by Kurds to the territory they claim in Syria and rejecting an allegation often made by Turks and Syrian Arabs that the PKK is deeply engaged in the battles there.

Now, Turkish warplanes are directly targeting Daesh locations – the latest bombing run coming early Saturday for a second straight day. Kurdish militants then opened fire on the vehicle with long-range rifles, it said.

The announcement said that while coalition forces would stop all military activities, they would reserve the right to respond to violations by the rebels.

IS and PKK posts in Syria were also shelled from Turkey, the government said. But he also said both sides should avoid violence and pursue de-escalation.

“The truce has no meaning any more after these intense air strikes by the occupant Turkish army”, the PKK said on its website.

With Turkey still without a permanent government after a June 7 election resulted in the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) losing its overall majority for the first time since 2002, parliament has been summoned to meet on Wednesday to discuss the security situation.

Al Jazeera’s Mohammed Jamjoom, reporting from Kilis in southern-central Turkey, said Kurdish people in the area were “very anxious about what lies ahead in days to come”.

“We will not allow Turkey to be turned into a lawless country”.

The raids on IS and the PKK by Turkey was sparked by the killing of 32 pro-Kurdish activists in a suicide bombing Monday in the Turkish town of Suruc on the Syrian border, carried out by a 20-year-old Turkish man linked to IS.

The PKK had yesterday said that the conditions were no longer in place to observe a fragile ceasefire that has largely held since 2013.

Turkey was also anxious about the growing strength of Syria’s Kurds, a group known as the YPG, which now controls more than half of Syria’s 800km border with Turkey. Coalition air forces that have been ongoing for nearly a year are operating from bases in Cyprus and the Persian Gulf, because until now Turkey has refused to authorise offensive operations from its bases against its neighbours.

However, he did admit albeit a little indirectly that the Kurd militants fighting the Islamic State were also a target.