The Kurdish fighters succeeded in leading them to safety.
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said yesterday that its operations against the PKK would not stop anytime soon, angering the rebels.
The leaders of the PKK Kurdish guerrilla organisation has said they have been in indirect talks with the United States, despite being listed by Washington as terrorists, asking it to intervene and mediate in its war with Turkey.
On Saturday, one Turkish soldier was killed in clashes between the Turkish security forces and the PKK militants in Semdinli town of Hakkari province in southeastern Turkey, private Dogan news agency reported.
As Syria’s Kurds have expanded their territorial gains in Kobani and other areas near the Turkish border, authorities in Turkey have grown increasingly nervous. Ocalan has, in the past, called on Kurdish fighters in Turkey to cease hostilities.
Turkish security forces rounded up more than 2,000 people as part of the crackdown in raids against Islamists and Kurdish militants last month. Erdogan had refused, amid raging rumors that Turkey, a North Atlantic Treaty Organisation member, was in fact helping ISIS.
The sources also claimed that children were being included in PKK actions and that the group was trying to force people from the homes by creating a climate of fear in the region.
Mr Bayik said Mr Erdogan had employed proxies to deliberately provoke the PKK into a response.
“Fighting against ISIS [Islamic State] makes us feel good like we are doing something good for humanity”, 25-year-old female commander Dilan Serdar told Rudaw News. The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation ally has staged three air strikes against the Islamic State in Syria, a government official said.
Another reason for the failure was the battle for Kobani, Celik said. Turkey denied it. Instead, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi called the attacks against Kurdish bases “an assault on Iraqi sovereignty“.
“The PKK has not provided evidence that the policemen had links to ISIS”, Celik said. The vast majority, the government admitted, were suspected of links with the PKK.
When Turkey carried out its first airstrikes, it had still publicly recognized ISIL as its main enemy. “Basically the genocide of Kurds is happening before the world”, she said. They stayed back in the US led coalition these last few months but finally agreed to join after the attack in Suruc, which left 32 people dead and many more injured. The official asked not to be named because of the sensitivity of the issue. His comments framed some of the big issues in the parliamentary campaign that is likely this fall. However, no one has been allowed to meet him since April.
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“We have conveyed the message that the peace process would not end if certain conditions are met but it is impossible to continue the process unless terrorist groups lay down their arms and leave the country“. Other Kurdish fighters have been effective against the Islamic State.
