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Ankara, earlier, said PKK attacks on Turkey made peace attempts impossible.

Uighurs share close linguistic, cultural and religious ties with Turks.

District of Gazi in Istanbul, on July 26, 2015.

Turkey has also denied, and is now investigating, allegations that their tanks recently fired over the Syrian border and killed members of the Kurdish YPG (also known as the People’s Protection Units).

Turkey, meanwhile, fuelled the growing anger of its Kurdish minority by shelling a Kurdish-held village in northern Syria while its warplanes continued to pound Kurdish targets in northern Iraq.

Security forces has detained at least 15 people suspected of links to the Islamic State gr… The graffiti on the background reads in Turkish “Front”. The official insisted on anonymity because this person was not authorized to publicly discuss the talks with Turkey.

Kerry told the Council on Foreign Relations think tank in New York that “we have to change the dynamic in Syria” to kill off radical Islamic State, which has declared a caliphate in swathes of territory it has seized in Syria and Iraq.

He said there is more chance of a nuclear arms race in the Middle East without the recently negotiated deal.

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.

Also Thursday, US officials announced they had reached a long-awaited agreement with Ankara to allow US airstrikes on Islamic State targets from a base near Turkey’s Syrian border, the Associated Press reports.

The bombing followed a decision by Turkey this week to allow the U.S. military to use the Incirlik air base near the border with Syria to launch airstrikes against the Islamic State.

The jets pounded targets early on Friday, the prime minister’s office said in a statement, confirming earlier comments from a Turkish official.

“Although Islamic State has been held responsible for this attack, Turkey’s AKP government, by resisting the taking of effective measures to prevent Islamic State and other reactionary forces, bears the real responsibility”, the opposition Peoples’...

The state-run Anadolu news agency said a soldier was killed after shots were fired from across the border in Syria into the southern province of Kilis, with Turkey responding by pounding militant positions with artillery. His corpse, a rocket launcher and an AK-47 used by the...

Raqa, in the Euphrates Valley northeast of Damascus, is the de facto Syrian capital of the Islamic State group, which controls large swathes of Syria and neighbouring Iraq, where it rules with an iron fist.