Saturday 26 December 2015

Locals: Turkey’s Crackdown on Kurdish Towns Increasingly Violent

Troops Shelling Indiscriminately Into Curfew Torns


by Jason Ditz
While Turkey continues to hype its military operations against towns in the southeast as part of the war against the PKK, with an eye toward “cleansing” the country of PKK separatists, locals complain the operations are increasingly bloody.
To make matters worse, theattacks are largely indiscriminate, with Turkish military forces imposing a full curfew on those towns, and firing against anything that moves. Wounded civilians are basically stuck in their homes, with no way to get to hospitals, and no way for doctors to reach them.
Turkey insists the operations are very precise, and hit militants who are active in affected neighborhoods, but locals point to a growing number of women, children, and the elderly killed in the operations to dispute those claims.
Turkey has been at war with the PKK for over 30 years, but had a ceasefire in place until this fall, when the Erdogan government abandoned the ceasefire and launched a new offensive against PKK targets inside Iraq. This has since escalated, and they’ve ruled out any return to a truce.

http://news.antiwar.com/2015/12/25/locals-turkeys-crackdown-on-kurdish-towns-increasingly-violent/

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