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The Turkish military said it hit and neutralized 17 “separatists terrorist targets” in Hakkari province, which borders Iran and Iraq.

The group accused the policemen of having links with ISIS and masterminding a bombing in the southern Turkish town of Suruc that killed dozens of civilians.

“And these are the Kurds“, Özdemir said.

“Despite our official announcement that we are not part of what is happening…the Turkish military monitors and targets our units”, the group said in a statement posted to their website.

President of this very Regional Government of The Northern Iraq, Mesut Barzani tough his terminology about PKK later on losses of friendly non-military people found on the north Iraq resulting from these devices raids that were planned by Turkish Air Forces against Terrorism.

Turkey’s largest city Istanbul was shaken by twin attacks on the US consulate and a police station that killed one senior officer, while five police were killed in the southeastern Sirnak province in an escalating cycle of violence.

The leader of Turkey’s pro-Kurdish opposition has accused Erdoğan of launching air strikes in Syria and Iraq to prevent Kurdish territorial and political gains, and of using the war against ISIL as a cover. And that’s the problem.

But a North Atlantic Treaty Organisation official said members also used the closed-door meeting to call on Turkey not to use excessive force in reaction to attacks, while urging it to continue with peace efforts.

Three people have been killed and seven wounded in clashes between Turkish security forces and suspected PKK militants in the Kurdish town of Silopi.

Spokesman Tanju Bilgic told reporters a cabinet resolution to allow the use of the base by coalition aircraft “has matured”, meaning Incirlik “could be used any time, whenever needed”.

At least two Turkish soldiers were killed and 24 others were injured in a suspected suicide attack in Turkey’s eastern Agri province early on Sunday, an official statement said.

“ Drones, helicopter gunships and commando units have been despatched to the scene”, it said, adding that one “terrorist” had been killed in the clashes.

The attack is the latest to be blamed on the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) which is engaged in an escalating cycle of violence with the security forces. The attacks ended a two-year cease-fire between the Turkish government and the PKK, effectively derailing a projected...

One of the PKK fighters was also reported killed in the fighting, and Turkish forces are conducting searches in the surrounding area trying to locate the rest.

It also accused Iraq of failing to keep to a pledge to prevent PKK attacks on Turkey from its territory.