Turkey crackdown on Kurds
- Turkish military opens new battlefront, sends more tanks into Syria
Turkish tanks and other armored vehicles have entered Syria’s northern province of Aleppo and shelled Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) positions in the area, opening up yet another battlefront within the last two weeks, various media outlets reported.News - Turkey rejects truce with Kurds, lashes out at US over ‘unacceptable’ comments
Ankara has summoned the US ambassador to Turkey to explain Washington’s “unacceptable” comments about Turkey’s anti-ISIS operation in Syria, rejecting any talk of a ceasefire with the US-backed Kurdish militia and vowing to “eliminate all threats.”America - Turkish Syria op: ‘US won’t prioritize Kurds over alliance with Ankara’
Turkey sees two goals in its Syrian military operation - to thwart the threat posed by Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL), and to prevent a kind of Kurdish enclave on its southern border Middle East affairs expert Ali Rizk told RT. - Turkey-backed militants set to race US-supported Kurds for ISIS-held Syrian town
Ankara-backed Islamist units have reportedly mobilized on the Turkish side of the Syrian border to launch an assault on Jarablus, aiming to prevent the US-backed Kurdish-dominant SDF from capturing the town from Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) terrorists.News - Kurdish protesters in peaceful takeover of German broadcaster to highlight suffering in S.E Turkey
Around 30 Kurdish activists took part in a peaceful protest at a regional WRD television station in the German city of Duesseldorf on Thursday night. The demonstrators were trying to draw attention to the plight of Kurds in Turkey.News - ‘Erdogan using post-coup conditions to impose authoritarian regime’
The Turkish government is daily issuing decrees based on the emergency law, and today it just shut down many TV channels, newspapers, etc., Alp Altinors, Deputy Chairman of the Turkish Peoples' Democratic Party, told RT.
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