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26 Jun
Why Turkey is holding back, for now, after Syria downed its jet | The Christian Science Monitor By Scott Peterson At an emergency summit today, NATO and Turkey denounced Syria’s shooting down of a Turkish military jet four days ago but sought to calm fears of a broader escalation between the neighbors. Syria’s shooting down of the jet was a deliberate and “heinous act” that has “changed” the rules of engagement for Turkish armed forces, Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan told parliament today. Any Syrian military approach along their shared border will now be treated as a “threat” and a military target. At a time when Turkey is hosting political and armed opponents of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Mr. Erdogan made clear that Turkey’s response was deliberate and calculated but warned that that should not be taken as a “sign of weakness.” FULL ARTICLE (Christian Science Monitor) Photo: Burhan Ozbilici/ AP

Why Turkey is holding back, for now, after Syria downed its jet | The Christian Science Monitor

By Scott Peterson

At an emergency summit today, NATO and Turkey denounced Syria’s shooting down of a Turkish military jet four days ago but sought to calm fears of a broader escalation between the neighbors.

Syria’s shooting down of the jet was a deliberate and “heinous act” that has “changed” the rules of engagement for Turkish armed forces, Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan told parliament today. Any Syrian military approach along their shared border will now be treated as a “threat” and a military target.

At a time when Turkey is hosting political and armed opponents of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Mr. Erdogan made clear that Turkey’s response was deliberate and calculated but warned that that should not be taken as a “sign of weakness.”

FULL ARTICLE (Christian Science Monitor)

Photo: Burhan Ozbilici/ AP

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20 Jun
Turkey: Clashes Between Army and PKK Soldiers Leave 26 Dead | International Business Times By Gianluca Mezzofiore Clashes between Turkish soldiers and Kurdish militants have left at least 26 people dead in fighting at three army outposts in Hakkari province, near the country’s mountainous border with Iraq. Militants of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which is considered a terrorist organisation in Turkey, the European Union and the United States, launched a  simultaneous attack on a local military post in Daglica village. Eight Turkish soldiers and 18 PKK fighters were killed in the attack. FULL ARTICLE (IBT) Photo: Reuters

Turkey: Clashes Between Army and PKK Soldiers Leave 26 Dead | International Business Times

By Gianluca Mezzofiore

Clashes between Turkish soldiers and Kurdish militants have left at least 26 people dead in fighting at three army outposts in Hakkari province, near the country’s mountainous border with Iraq.

Militants of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which is considered a terrorist organisation in Turkey, the European Union and the United States, launched a  simultaneous attack on a local military post in Daglica village.

Eight Turkish soldiers and 18 PKK fighters were killed in the attack.

FULL ARTICLE (IBT)

Photo: Reuters

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