Articles About Terrorist Activities

Hurriyet

Three Turkish soldiers were killed and eight others were injured Wednesday in clashes with PKK terrorists in eastern and southeastern provinces of Turkey.

Two Turkish soldiers were killed and four others were injured in the clash that took place in the Lice district of southeastern province of Diyarbakir. Four PKK terrorists were killed in the clash in Diyarbakir.

In an earlier clash on Wednesday in a rural area of the eastern province of Agri, a major was killed and four other Turkish soldiers were injured.

Another PKK terrorist was killed in southeastern province of Sirnak and one terrorist surrendered to security forces in Diyarbakir, the General Staff said Wednesday in a statement posted on its website.

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Hurriyet

Turkey and the Kurdish regional administration in northern Iraq agreed on a strategic plan involving measures against the terror organization PKK, the organization’s mouthpiece Firat News Agency reported on Thursday.

According to the agreement, the administration in northern Iraq led by Massoud Barzani will cut the links between Europe and the PKK, which uses bases in northern Iraq as a springboard to launch cross-border attacks on neighboring Turkey.    

Turkey also wants Barzani to force the PKK terrorists leave the northern Iraq lands, the agreement says.   

The agreement also includes the deployment of special Turkish forces to a number of strategic control points in northern Iraq, in addition to the Kurdish Peshmerga forces, in order to cut logistic, political and military support to the PKK.

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Hurriyet

The man who fired a shot into the air to scare pro-Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, demonstrators in Istanbul recently, has been the victim of an arson attack, a daily reported yesterday.

The man fired his shotgun in the Hacı Ahmed neighborhood of Istanbul, on Nov. 2, when a group of demonstrators came close to him. Demonstrators were protesting in response to reports the jailed leader of the outlawed PKK, Abdullah Öcalan, had been mistreated in custody.

The man was later detained and charged with the unlawful use of a gun in a public neighborhood, and then released pending trial.

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Hurriyet

Turkish armed forces shelled terror organization PKK bases in northern Iraq on Monday, according to Iraqi officials.

Colonel Hussein Tamor, head of border guards in Iraq’s northern Kurdish province of Dahuk, told Reuters that artillery shells had struck at around 4:00 p.m. (1300 GMT) in the area, which has a remote mountain border with southeastern Turkey.

A spokesman for the Kurdish Peshmerga Security forces, Jabbar Yawar, said there were three or four Turkish warplanes flying over Dahuk at the time of the attack.

“The bombing was very hard,” Yawar told Reuters.

The bombardment lasted for an hour and a half, an official with the Iraqi border guard told AFP.

The officials said there were no casualties in the strikes because the area was largely unpopulated.

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American Chronicle

Oppressed under all colonial regimes, after the collapse of the peaceful Ottoman rule, the Turkmen of Northern Mesopotamia are the best monitors of the machinations and the activities of some Kurmanji and a few Sorani tribal leaders, who have been ordered to call themselves “Kurds” by their financers.

Turkmen activists and intellectuals, scholars and politicians have comprehensively denounced the thugs-in chief Talabani and Barzani, who have been scrupulously guided by French and English political and military agents in order to form death squads and terrorist militias and exercise terrorist acts against the majority of the Northern Mesopotamian populations who all reject the ´Kurdish´ forgery.

Without the constant intervention of the evil French colonialists – allies of Saddam Hussein, the duly punished Iraqi dictator would have eliminated the pseudo-Kurdish chieftains who have recently been promoted to ´apprentice magicians´ of the Apostate Freemasonic Lodge that uses them without them understanding that with their terrorist acts they only dig – only too well – their own tombs.

The question is , since Talabani and Barzani are the new Saddam Husseins of Northern Mesopotamia, why Justice has been made for the previous dictator, and not for the present ones?

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Hurriyet

Turkey’s struggle with terror is not only a battle against a couple of terrorists in the mountains, but with the international powers behind them, Deputy Prime Minister Cemil Cicek said on Saturday.

Some international powers are disturbed by a developing Turkey, Cicek said during his visit to Black Sea coast province Amasya adding that, “Therefore, the terror issue in Turkey does not consist only of a continued struggle with a couple of terrorists at mountains, there are international powers supporting this situation. We know who these are.”

Turkey has been struggling for over three decades with the PKK, considered as a terrorist organization by a majority of the international community including the U.S. and the European Union, and lost more than 30,000 people.

Most of the terrorists are not Turkish citizens, in other words, the struggle is a global one, Cicek also said.

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Hurriyet

Iraq will send delegations to neighboring countries to explain a pact with the United States allowing U.S. troops to remain on its territory for three years, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki told the Turkish President in a telephone conversation on Friday.

Maliki “will dispatch delegations to Iraq’s neighbors, including Turkey, to show them the security agreement after receiving the American replies to the proposed modifications,” a statement from his office quoted him as telling Turkish President Abdullah Gul.

He would do so after Baghdad receives a U.S. reply to five proposed amendments made by Iraq, the statement added.

On Wednesday, U.S. President George W. Bush promised to consider Baghdad’s proposed changes to the SOFA (Status of Forces Agreement) but warned against shifts t to be in place by the end of the year to set new guidelines for U.S. military operations in Iraq after the expiry of the present U.N. mandate.

The draft pact, which has triggered fierce opposition in Iraq, says US forces will withdraw from towns and neighborhoods by the end of June next year and from the whole country by the end of 2011.

Iraq’s neighbors include Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Jordan.

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AFP

General Raymond Odierno, chief of American forces in Iraq, has visited Turkey to discuss plans to cooperate in fighting rebels of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), the US military said on Saturday.

Odierno met Turkish General Hasan Igsiz, deputy chief of the Turkish General Staff, on Friday, the statement said. Their talks focused on continued assistance by US forces to Turkey in Ankara’s efforts to battle the PKK.

“The PKK is a terrorist organisation and has committed heinous crimes against the Turkish people,” the statement quoted Odierno as saying.

“I’m committed to work with the government of Turkey and the government of Iraq to prevent further atrocities.”

A series of PKK attacks over the past month killed dozens of Turkish soldiers and civilians, sparking public outcry and pledges from Turkish leaders to deal with the group, it said.

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Hurriyet

General Raymond Odierno, chief of American forces in Iraq, has visited Turkey to discuss plans to cooperate in fighting the terror organization, PKK, the US military said on Saturday.

Odierno met General Hasan Igsiz, deputy chief of the Turkish General Staff, to discuss PKK terrorists launching attacks into Turkey from northern Iraq, the U.S. military said.

The meeting on Friday “centered on U.S. forces’ ongoing assistance to Turkey” in its effort to defeat PKK, the military said in a statement.

Their talks focused on continued assistance by U.S. forces to Turkey in Ankara’s efforts to battle the PKK, it added.

“The PKK is a terrorist organization and has committed heinous crimes against the Turkish people,” the statement quoted Odierno as saying.

“I’m committed to work with the government of Turkey and the government of Iraq to prevent further atrocities.”

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Agence France Presse

Finnish police said Wednesday they had arrested five men on suspicion of trying to set fire to the Turkish Embassy in Helsinki.

“We have now arrested five people connected with this case. This afternoon we detained the fifth person,” Helsinki police chief inspector Markku Stenberg told Agence France-Presse.

The door of the embassy building was set ablaze with flammable liquid in the early hours of Tuesday. The fire was quickly detected by a police patrol and extinguished, but one embassy worker was hospitalized with injuries.

Stenberg said those arrested were aged 16 to 20 and were all of Turkish origin. At least some were Kurds.

“We have continued interrogations today. It has become clearer how it all happened. But I will not comment possible motives,” he said.

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