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Turkish fighter jets in Iraqi Kurdistan,
soldiers deployed on border
12.10.2013
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October 12,
2013
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey's Kurdish
region,— Five Turkish F-16 fighter jets were
scrambled across the border into Iraq's Kurdistan
region two days ago to monitor the Kurdish PKK
militants who were reportedly and according to
Turkish intelligence received reports, are moving
towards Turkish territory, world bulletin reported.
They scoured the area for two hours, flying over
Kurdistan Workers' Party PKK camps in Qandil, Zap
and Metina, collecting information before returning.
There has been increasing activity around the camps
for the past few days.
According to Turkish intelligence, some factions
within the PKK are attempting to re-enter Turkey
after the group agreed to withdraw into Iraq's
Kurdistan region (Southern Kurdistan) in April.
Meanwhile and according to Firat news agency, thousands
of Turkish soldiers from the 48th infantry brigade
in Şırnak's Sêgirk (Şenoba) town have been deployed
on Iraqi Kurdistan border on Friday,
Turkish military units (Gendarmerie) have recently
withdrawn from the Iraq's Kurdistan border after the
transfer of the “border protection” authority from
the general commandership of gendarmerie to the land
forces command.
Caravans have reportedly been sent to the border
region where soldiers are currently staying in
tents.
The military deployment on Iraq's Kurdistan border
came after the Turkish parliament last Thursday
extended for one year a mandate that
would allow Ankara to order military strikes against
the PKK rebels holed up
in neighbouring Iraq's Kurdistan region.
In March the PKK's jailed Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan
declared a ceasefire after months of clandestine
negotiations with the Turkish secret service.
The PKK last month suspended their planned pullout
of Turkish territory,www.ekurd.net
accusing the government
of not keeping promises for greater rights for
Kurds. Kurdish legislators have said that a package
of reforms unveiled by Turkish Prime Minister Recep
Tayyip Erdogan falls short of expectations.
The PKK and Kurds in Turkey believe that the right
to learn Kurdish language is not enough and demanded
teaching the language in public schools, autonomous
rule, releasing thousands of imprisoned Kurds and
recognition of the Kurdish identity in the Turkish
institution.
Since it was established in 1984, the PKK has been
fighting the Turkish state, which still denies the
constitutional existence of Kurds, to establish a
Kurdish state in the south east of the country. By
2013 more than 45,000 people have since been killed.
But now its aim is the creation an autonomous region
and more cultural rights for ethnic Kurds, who make
up around
22.5 million
of the country's 75-million population, its goal
to political autonomy. A large Turkey's Kurdish
community openly sympathise with PKK rebels.
The PKK and Turkey's Kurds want constitutional recognition for the
Kurds, regional self-governance and Kurdish-language
education in schools.
Turkey refuses to recognize its Kurdish population
as a distinct minority. It has allowed some cultural
rights such as limited broadcasts in the Kurdish
language and private Kurdish language courses with
the prodding of the European Union, but Kurdish
politicians say the measures fall short of their
expectations.
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