Turkey’s army chief says up to 270 PKK terrorists killed

[AKSU]

24 October 2011, Monday / İBRAHİM ÖKÜR/MEHMET GÜNGÖR, HAKKARİ

Turkish security forces killed total of 115 PKK terrorists in the past week in offensives carried out in Çukurca’s Kazan Valley region, which borders Iraq.​

Turkey’s Chief of General Staff has said the number of terrorists killed by the Turkish military in a massive offensive launched against the terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) since August has reached about 270 with Turkish troops killing 15 more terrorists in the Kazan Valley region near the town of Çukurca in Hakkari province on Monday.

Soldiers earlier killed 100 terrorists in the same region in military operations that began hours after 24 soldiers were killed in Çukurca by the PKK in simultaneous attacks last Wednesday, marking the highest death toll of a single attack on the military since the 1990s. Sources say 15 more terrorists were killed in the Kazan Valley on Monday and that the military had seized 11 Kalashnikov rifles as well as a rocket launcher and several hand grenades.

Chief of General Staff Necdet Özel told NTV television in a written interview that Turkish military continues to intensively shell and bomb PKK targets in Iraq by fighter jets since Aug. 17 and up to 270 PKK terrorists were killed during the offensive and more than 210 terrorists injured.

Özel said huge infrastructure that belongs to the terrorists were largely destroyed and terrorists have started to take shelter in more safe areas. He said numbers of terrorists fleeing the PKK camps seriously increased after the air bombing on PKK targets.

Turkey's top commanders, Özel, and four force commanders who rushed to Hakkari in the aftermath of Wednesday's PKK attacks are still in the region to oversee the anti-PKK offensive and have no plans to return to Ankara until the offensive is successfully completed. Özel is personally commanding the air-backed ground offensive that was launched against the PKK along the border and in northern Iraq.

The military also said operations include commandos, Special Forces and paramilitary Special Forces. They are being reinforced by F-16 and F-4 warplanes, Super Cobra helicopter gunships and surveillance drones.

Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arınç said over the weekend that the top commanders “pledged not to return home before accomplishing the anti-PKK operation.” Clashes with the PKK have killed tens of thousands of people since the PKK took up arms to fight for autonomy in the country's predominantly Kurdish Southeast in 1984.



Turkish Armed Forces - New posters, read first post - Page 354

 

[AKSU]

Turkey moves into Iraq near PKK camp


24 October 2011, Monday / TODAYSZAMAN.COM WITH REUTERS,

Turkish tanks and armored vehicles crossed into northern Iraq headed in the direction of a Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) camp, Turkish security sources said on Monday.

The incursion came as cross-border operations continued in the wake of last week's attack by PKK terrorists that killed 24 Turkish soldiers.

The armored column, with hundreds of troops, was moving towards a PKK camp at Haftanin, around 20 km (12 miles) from the Habur border post and near the Iraqi city of Zakho, the sources said.

Several hundred PKK terrorists were believed to be based at Haftanin, the sources said. Warplanes took off earlier from bases in Diyarbakır and Malatya to launch airstrikes on the camp as the latest phase of operations began on Monday afternoon.

The remoteness of the camp's location and the difficult terrain made it difficult to assess how close the Turkish force had moved toward Haftanin.

Residents of the village of Dashtatakh in Dahuk province, about 10 km east of Haftanin, reported that 200 Turkish soliders entered Iraqi territory on Monday afternoon but left about an hour later. Tanks could be seen in the distance but did not enter, according to one.

"I saw this afternoon around 200 Turkish soldiers entering a site near our village. They were on foot and equipped with light weapons," said Dashtatakh resident Said Hanna Younan.

"It seems that they were looking for PKK fighters, and they didn't find what they were looking for. They left after one hour," he said, adding that the tanks had stayed on the Turkish side of the river.

Separately, the head of Turkey's armed forces, General Necdet Özel, offered a review of recent military operations for NTV news channel.

"The cross border operation that started on October 20 continues in a number of regions, within the framework of a determined stuggle against terrorism," Özel said in written answers to questions from NTV and posted on its website.

Turkish air strikes have killed 250 to 270 PKK terrorists, wounded 210 and destroyed many arms stores in northern Iraq since Aug. 17, Özel said in the text.

Turkish warplanes launched air strikes against PKK members in northern Iraq in mid-August in retaliation for a string of PKK attacks in southeast Turkey.

The military launched fresh air-backed ground operations against the terrorists last week on both sides of the mountainous Turkey-Iraq border after simultaneous PKK attacks killed 24 Turkish soldiers in Hakkari province on the Iraqi border.

On Saturday, the military said it had killed 49 terrorists during two days of fighting in a valley on the Turkish side of the frontier.

Ankara's reaction to one of the deadliest attacks on its security forces in a conflict that began three decades ago had fuelled speculation that Turkey could move to a full-blown incursion to clear out PKK camps deeper inside northern Iraq.

More than 40,000 people have been killed since the conflict began in 1984. The United States, the European Union and Turkey designate the PKK as a terrorist organisation.



Turkey moves into Iraq near PKK camp

 

[AKSU]

Thousands hold anti-terrorism protests in various cities


24 October 2011, Monday / TODAY'S ZAMAN, İSTANBUL

Thousands of people held protests in various cities in Turkey on Sunday, condemning terrorism in the wake of the killing of 24 soldiers in Hakkari's Çukurca district last week in a series of attacks by the terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).

The killings led to nationwide public outrage, with almost all segments of society, including figures from the country's Kurdish population, speaking out against the PKK. The Turkish military has launched a massive operation against the PKK.

People gathered in city squares and parks in the provinces of Ankara, İstanbul, İzmir, Gaziantep, Artvin, Mardin, Şırnak, Artvin, Adana, Zonguldak, Mardin, Kayseri, Antalya, Çanakkale, Denizli, Muğla, Balıkesir, Manisa and Denizli and also marched short distances to express their anger towards terrorism.

In Ankara a group of people from the Confederation of Public Workers' Rights Labor Union (HAKSEN) walked to Güvenpark, where they recited prayers for the dead soldiers. Another group that organized through social media had also gathered in Güvenpark and visited Anıtkabir, the mausoleum of nation's founder Atatürk.

İzmir was the scene of a protest by some 60,000 people who congregated at Gündoğdu Square with placards reading “We are all soldiers, we will bring down the PKK.” Approximately 2,000 people separated from the crowd and walked to the headquarters of the İzmir branch of the pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) and threw stones at the building. Police tried to prevent the group from hanging a Turkish flag from the BDP building after which a skirmish occurred. When police allowed the group to hang the flag on the building, the conflict subsided.

In Gaziantep a group of people gathered at Democracy Square. Carrying Turkish flags, they walked to the house of martyred soldier Fevzi Kazak, who died in the Çukurca attack. The group then returned to the square and sang the national anthem.

A number of political parties and civil society organizations staged a protest in Artvin under the theme “Condemn terrorism, respect martyrs.” The meeting was sponsored by the Republican People's Party (CHP), the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), the Democrat Party (DP) and the Felicity Party (SP). Carrying Turkish flags, the group walked from Cumhuriyet Street to a nearby car park and then dispersed.

In Mardin a group of people got together at Yenişehir Square and shouted slogans against the PKK. Orhan Kandemir, head of the Temporary Village Guards Association, who spoke at the meeting, said that the PKK should not speak on behalf of the Kurdish people.

Elsewhere, in Şırnak, people gathered in front of the building of the Yeşeren Youth Association and recited prayers for the soldiers who died in the attack at Çukurca.

In Antalya motorcycle riders rode between Antalya and Kemer, carrying Turkish flags.

Denizli was the scene of a protest staged by some 15,000 people at Dlikçınar Square, while in Marmaris protestors were joined by fishermen in their boats who blew their horns in support of the protestors.

In Balıkesir approximately 12,000 people demanded that capital punishment be reintroduced in Turkey. They hung an effigy of Abdullah Öcalan, the imprisoned leader of the PKK, in protest.

Meanwhile, a group of people who had gathered after a call to protest by the Union of Turkish Associations of Germany (ATDB) held a demonstration in Germany's Cologne. Some 500 people gathered shouting slogans such as “Damn PKK” and “Turkey will be Apo's graveyard,” in reference to Öcalan.

ATDB Chairperson İsa İlyasoğlu said they strongly condemn the Çukurca attack by the PKK. He added that Turkish people have no problem with Turkey's Kurdish citizens.

In addition, Gülten Kaya, widow of Kurdish musician Ahmet Kaya, said in regards to Turks and Kurds that it is sad to see that the country's people, who share so much in common, are in pain.

Kurdish businessmen in northern Iraq stated that they strongly condemn the attacks by the terrorist PKK against Turkish security personnel, civilians and businesses.

There are hundreds of Turkish businessmen who have invested millions of dollars in northern Iraqi cities and are working side by side with Kurdish businessmen. A Kurdish businessman from northern Iraq who cooperates with a Turkish businessman from Kayseri said the PKK has shown its real face with the latest attacks and that the PKK cannot ruin Turkish-Kurdish brotherhood.


Thousands hold anti-terrorism protests in various cities

 

[AKINCI]

A terrorist captured at toilet.

 

[emretr]

Thanks for the pics akinci. arkadaşlar trmilitary sitesine üye olamıyorum yardımcı olur musunuz

 

[AKINCI]

Thanks for the pics akinci. arkadaşlar trmilitary sitesine üye olamıyorum yardımcı olur musunuz

napıcan orda zamanına yazık.

 

[abay]

Thanks for the pics akinci. arkadaşlar trmilitary sitesine üye olamıyorum yardımcı olur musunuz

Hocam şimdilik üye alımı kapalı galiba. Belirli aralıklarla açılıyor takip ederseniz denk gelirsiniz belki.

 

[turkaholic]

A terrorist captured at toilet.

Oh god! I wish I was standing right next to that ugly fuk. I would friggin punch the **** out of him and make him eat his own shitt!!!

 

[ovarel]

A terrorist captured at toilet.

This is hilarious.

I wish we wouldnt have had to fight though.