Those visits were halted before the June parliamentary election and the government has indicated they will not be permitted to resume. With an AKP supermajority in the parliament, the constitution could be rewritten to transform Turkey into a presidential system. For long, Turkey has permitted, and even facilitated, the flow of young men and women from various countries to Syria to join the IS.
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Erdogan is playing it risky. “We had to wait 10 days in 50 degree heat for the bodies of our children to be returned”. HDP (Halkarin Demokratik Partisi, People’s Democratic Party), which advocates reconciliation with Kurds and supports their aspirations for equal treatment, won 80 seats.
Three more Turkish soldiers were killed on Saturday in an attack by members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in eastern Turkey, the army said, as authorities carried out new raids to arrest suspected militants.
Only now that the Kurds have become such an important factor in the fight against ISIS has Erdogan decided to bomb ISIS.
As of recent, peace negotiations between the Turkish government and the PKK have been derailed. Turkish media reports have put the PKK’s death toll at more than 200. On July 24 Turkey started bombing not only IS but also PKK targets in Iraq.
In new fieriness held accountable located on the PKK, two different military services motor vehicles were usually harmed in the southeastern territory of Bitlis once these horde with a remote-controlled mine… On Tuesday Turkish warplanes bombed 17 Kurdish targets within the south east of the nation after the Kurdish PKK militant group claimed it was chargeable for Monday’s bombing of an Istanbul police station through which 4 individuals died.
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But Mr Cavusoglu indicated after meeting US secretary of state John Kerry in Malaysia that Turkey would be stepping up its campaign against IS jihadists. Many countries have a scapegoat or an old foe that the state can rally against to boost morale, divert attention or rally nationalist sentiment. Moreover, since the outbreak of civil war in Syria, Ankara has become rightly concerned that the Kurds will declare their own state in an area around northern Syria and Iraq. For now, Washington has taken up the offer to use the Incirlik air base, but is balking at a no-fly zone, while urging, with limited success, that the attacks on the various Kurdish interests be curtailed. It also said it would create a non-Isil “safe zone” in northern Syria. An attack on the army in Semdinli on August 15, 1984, is considered the first in the insurgency that went on to claim more than 40,000 lives, mostly Kurdish, have been killed.
