“They can not stay in this position”.
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Recently, the Arab League denounced Turkey’s anti-PKK operations in Iraq, calling on Ankara to recognize its neighbor’s sovereignty.
ISIL has now captured a major portion of Syria and Iraq, strengthening its efforts to form an Islamic caliphate.
Pentagon spokesman Navy Capt. Jeff Davis said a drone had launched an airstrike from Turkey for the first time Wednesday, but he provided no further details.
In Makhmour, 10 miles from the Isis front lines, Commander Aso denies that his guerrillas will be drawn away from the fight.
Aiming at the PKK and the PYD will also be a boost for Bashar al-Assad’s regime, which the Turkish government has been trying to topple for years.
In an interview with the Egyptian newspaper “Al-Ahram”, he drew a parallel between the actions of the U.S.-led anti-ISIL coalition in Syria and Turkey’s operation in northern Iraq.
“Now we are training and equipping the moderate [Syrian] opposition together with the United States, and we will also start our fight against Daesh very effectively soon”, Cavusoglu said.
Turkey has stepped up security along the border with Syria amid a crackdown on ISIS militants in the country. “In any society when there is a crisis, people rally under the flag, even if they don’t support the leader”.
This attitude is “paradoxical”, PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan’s lawyer Sinasi Tur says.
Reading calmly from a note in English, the kneeling man identifies himself as Tomislav Salopek, a married, 30-year-old father of two, adding that Islamic State fighters captured him July 22. Syrian Kurdish fighters were eventually assisted by coalition airstrikes.
Syria has been battling foreign-sponsored militancy since March 2011. Turkey has vowed to crack down on its border security.
Allegations have come from the left-wing, pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) and the Republican People’s Party (CHP) that the Turkish government and National Intelligence Agency were behind the Suruc massacre.
Supporters of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) attacked security forces with homemade explosives, rocket launchers and long-range rifles, set up barricades and placed mines.
“Today we call to both sides: the PKK must immediately remove its finger from the trigger and declare it will observe the ceasefire”, Demirtas told reporters in the southeastern city of Van.
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His appointment was made during a three-day annual meeting of the Supreme Military Council headed by Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu.
