Turkish academics detained for signing declaration

Davutoglu said Turkish forces attacked numerous Islamic State terrorist group targets along its border with Syria and near a Turkish camp in northern Iraq.

Turkish and global sources claim ISIS responsibility and the Islamic State itself recognizes the attack as being thought and done by one of its members.

There will be no real progress in Turkey’s fight against ISIS unless there is a much more serious strategy to get Ankara to focus on peace with the PKK. However, the Minister of Interior Affairs, Thomas de Meiziere, who arrived in Turkey right after the Istanbul bomb attack, noted at a joint press conference with his Turkish colleague that there was no evidence that the terrorists acted directly against Germans. Meanwhile, Russia’s foreign ministry on Thursday said a Russian man arrested after the deadly Istanbul bombing was suspected of having links to IS and that such extremists “feel comfortable” in Turkey.

Turkey agreed a year ago to take on a larger role in the fight against IS amid two major attacks that left 135 people dead.

Hundreds of PKK militants and dozens of Turkish policemen and soldiers have been reported killed in the region since July.

Turkey has often been criticized by its Western allies for not doing enough to combat Islamic State jihadis who have seized swaths of territory in Syria and Iraq.

Kurdish rebels, linked to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), have waged a three-decade insurgency against the Turkish government, with the conflict killing tens of thousands since 1984. “We have called on Turkey to ensure that existing legislation complies with European standards, and is implemented in a manner which ensures proportionality and equality before the law, in line with Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights and the case law of the European Court of Human Rights”. Firstly, Daesh is destabilizing Turkey itself, and last year’s terrorist attack and the bomb attack in Istanbul confirm this, if we believe the authorities, which state that the terrorist attack was committed by Daesh.

It also sees a threat from forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad, a former ally whom it now wants to see toppled, and has repeatedly accused him of covertly supporting Islamic State and seeking to destabilise the Turkish border.

“Turkish security forces are trying to reveal who used Daesh as a ‘subcontractor, ‘” he said, according to a translation provided by the Turkish Enligh-language newspaper Daily Sabah.

“The U.S. and Turkey were in the middle of a preparing a joint campaign”, Ulgen said.

The Kurdish rebel attack late Wednesday targeted the police station in the town of Cinar, in the mostly Kurdish Diyarbakir province, and police lodgings located at the building, the Diyarbakir governor’s office said. The Dogan news agency reported Thursday that Duzce University in northwestern Turkey fired a sociology lecturer for signing the declaration. “They lasted for about 2 1/2 hours, from 11.30 p.m.to 2 a.m”. A Reuters reporter saw nearby windows blown out, shop shutters mangled and streets covered in debris.