Report: Turkey Attacks Suspected Kurdish Rebel Tar

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Topic: Report: Turkey Attacks Suspected Kurdish Rebel Tar

Posted By: tjadams
Subject: Report: Turkey Attacks Suspected Kurdish Rebel Tar
Date Posted: 31-Dec-2011 at 18:54

Report: Turkey Attacks Suspected Kurdish Rebel Targets, Killing at Least 20

Published December 29, 2011

| Associated Press

ANKARA, Turkey – A Turkish news agency says the country's air force has killed at least 20 people in raids against suspected Kurdish rebel targets.

The attacks reportedly occurred late Wednesday on along Turkey's border with http://www.foxnews.com/topics/iraq.htm#r_src=ramp - Iraq , where Kurdish rebels are based.

The Dogan news agency said at least 20 people were killed, but the pro-Kurdish Firat news agency put the death toll at 35 "civilians."

Dogan quoted villagers in the border area as saying the dead are believed to include smugglers that the Turkish military mistook for Kurdish rebels trying to enter Turkey from Iraq.

There was no immediate comment from Turkish officials.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/12/29/report-turkey-attacks-suspected-kurdish-rebel-targets-killing-at-least-20/#ixzz1i9xRuTQr - http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/12/29/report-turkey-attacks-suspected-kurdish-rebel-targets-killing-at-least-20/#ixzz1i9xRuTQr

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Posted By: Nick1986
Date Posted: 31-Dec-2011 at 19:51

Terrible. There will never be peace until the Kurds, like the Palestinians, have their own country

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Posted By: Baal Melqart
Date Posted: 31-Dec-2011 at 20:17

Originally posted by Nick1986

Terrible. There will never be peace until the Kurds, like the Palestinians, have their own country

You'd think that Turkey with its massive spare hectares would be willing to compromise. I mean, the Kurds have been an identifiable people ever since Antiquity and haven't really assimilated very well in either Turkey, Iraq or Iran. But to be fair, these rebels are quite notorious human traffickers and sex-peddlers... I wouldn't know what kind of country they would create if given the opportunity.

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Posted By: Nick1986
Date Posted: 01-Jan-2012 at 21:50

Probably no worse than some of the other countries in the region. Afghanistan is a failed state, Yemen is on the brink of civil war, Syria's dictator is desperately clinging onto power, and Iraq only recently regained its independence from Bush's American Empire

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