Kurdish rebels kidnap 3 journalists in southeast Turkey

Mar 04, 2016, 14:47
Kurdish rebels kidnap 3 journalists in southeast Turkey

Turkey considers the PKK, PYD and YPG to be terrorist outfits.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has defended his country's fight against Kurdish fighters in Syria as "legitimate defence", after worldwide powers urged Ankara to rein in its cross-border bombardments.

Davutoglu also said, in a briefing to reporters broadcast live on television, that the Turkish Kurdish militant group TAK had claimed the attack as a "proxy" to shield the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia. Yet on Friday, during a phone conversation between President Barack Obama and his Turkish counterpart, the USA leader stressed that "YPG forces should not seek to exploit circumstances in this area to seize additional territory", in northern Syria where the Syrian army and the Kurdish militia, aided by Russian air power, have been making large gains.

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Some 21 suspects held over the Ankara attack were due to appear in court on Sunday, the pro-government Anatolia news agency reported. The TAK has previously claimed it carried out a mortar bomb attack on the Sabiha Gokcen Airport in Istanbul which killed a cleaner. It said the attack was in retaliation to the military's stepped up operations against the PKK.

The link to the NCTC's PKK (KGK) profile can be found at.

He also said: "The YPG continues to manipulate the war in Syria to its advantage".

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The PKK, considered a terrorist group by Turkey, the United States and the European Union, launched its separatist armed rebellion against the Turkish state more than three decades ago and more than 40,000 people have been killed in the conflict.

"The only thing we expect from our USA ally is to support Turkey with no ifs or buts", Davutoglu told a news conference following a five-hour security meeting with members of his cabinet and other officials.

However, Syria's government has accused Turkey of artillery shelling inside Syria and said it is an "outrageous violation" of global law.

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