更新：疑陷入内战，260名库尔德人被击毙，土耳其军队遭 ...

土耳其工人党成员驾驶装满2吨炸药的拖拉机，在靠近伊朗的一个哨所，袭击了土耳其军队，造成2名士兵死亡，31名士兵受伤，其中4名士兵伤势严重。另外，周六，在另外一省，一名土耳其士兵巡逻时遇袭身亡，7名士兵受伤。
亲库尔德人的反对派领袖指责土耳其总统利用打击伊斯兰国的幌子，打击伊拉克和叙利亚的库尔德人。

http://www.trust.org/item/20150802071417-yf94r/?

ISTANBUL, Aug 2 (Reuters) - The Turkish army said two of its soldiers were killed and 31 wounded in an attack overnight by the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), as violence escalated following Ankara's air bombardment of Kurdish militants in northern Iraq.

The suicide attack was carried out with a tractor loaded with two tonnes of explosives on a gendarmerie outpost in the Dogubeyazit district of eastern Agri province, bordering Iran, the provincial governor's office and the army said.

Four of the soldiers injured in the attack in which PKK militants also used rifles were in serious condition, the army said.

Another soldier was killed in Turkey's southeastern province of Mardin when a unit on patrol was attacked by the PKK late on Saturday night, the army said. Seven soldiers were also wounded in the incident.

Armed attacks by PKK militants in southeastern Turkey have increased since mid-July, much more so since Turkey began a campaign of air strikes on PKK camps in northern Iraq on July 24.

In what prime minister Ahmet Davutoglu has called a "synchronised fight against terror", Ankara has granted access of its bases to the U.S.-led coalition battling Islamic State, however so far the majority of Turkey's air bombardment has been on PKK targets.

Turkish officials have said the strikes against the PKK are a response to increased violence. Sunday's attacks have brought the number of security forces killed in attacks blamed on the PKK to at least sixteen, since July 20.

In an opinion piece published in Washington Post on July 31, Davutoglu said the operations would continue. "All terrorist organizations that target Turkey must know that their acts will not go unpunished and that we will respond to their acts with full resolve," he wrote.

"This is not to say that the process of seeking a solution is over; on the contrary, I am determined to take it forward," he said.

IRAQI REACTION

Massoud Barzani, the president of Iraq's Kurdistan region on Saturday condemned Turkey's bombardment of a village there which he said had killed civilians, and called for a return to the peace process.

In his statement, he has also called on the PKK to distance the war from KRG territory. "The PKK forces must move the battlefields away from Kurdistan," he said.

Turkey's foreign ministry said it was working with the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) to investigate claims of civilian casualties in the village of Zargala on Friday.

Western allies, including NATO and the United States, have supported Turkey's actions but several have also urged it not to use excessive force or to let years of peace efforts with Kurdish militants collapse.

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan initiated negotiations in 2012 to try to end the PKK insurgency, largely fought in the predominantly-Kurdish southeast and which has killed 40,000 people since 1984. The ceasefire, though fragile, had been holding since March 2013.

On Tuesday, Erdogan said the process had become impossible and urged parliament to strip politicians with links to the militants of immunity from prosecution.

The leader of Turkey's pro-Kurdish opposition has accused Erdogan of launching air strikes in Syria and Iraq to prevent Kurdish territorial and political gains, and of using the war against Islamic State as a cover. (Editing by William Hardy)

260名库尔德工人党成员被杀，380-400人受伤。
土耳其在遭到恐怖袭击后，开始了打击伊斯兰国和库尔德人的战争。但目前为止基本只专注于打击库尔德人。周五土耳其出动28架F16击毁65处目标。周四出动80架飞机袭击100处目标。

http://ekurd.net/260-kurdish-pkk-rebels-killed-in-turkey-air-strikes-2015-08-01?

ISTANBUL,— Around 260 members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) have been killed and hundreds more wounded in Ankara’s week-long campaign of air strikes against targets of the group inside Turkey and in Iraqi Kurdistan, the official Anatolia news agency said Saturday.

Without citing its sources, Anatolia said that among those wounded was Nurettin Demirtas, the brother of the leader of pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), Selahattin Demirtas.

Ankara has launched a two-pronged “anti-terror” offensive against Islamic State (IS) jihadists in Syria and Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants after a wave of attacks inside the country. But so far the bombardments have focused far more on the Kurdish rebels.

In the latest air strikes on Friday, 28 Turkish F-16s destroyed 65 targets of the PKK including shelters and arms depots, it said.

The heaviest air strikes were on Thursday, when 80 Turkish aircraft hit 100 targets of the PKK, Anatolia said.

“Up until now 260 terrorists have been rendered ineffective (killed) and 380-400 terrorists have been identified as injured, including the brother of Selahattin Demirtas, Nurettin Demirtas,” Anatolia said. The air strikes are expected to continue, it added.

The Turkish government has so far refused to officially disclose casualty figures, with one official telling AFP that “this is not a soccer game”.

But the sheer numbers of planes involved in the daily strikes on the PKK targets in Iraq’s Kurdistan Region has given an idea of the scale of the operation and raised concern in some Western capitals.

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Friday urged Turkey not to “tear down the bridges” that had been built over the last years with its Kurdish minority.

The PKK’s insurgency for greater rights and powers for Turkey’s Kurdish minority, begun more than 30 years ago, has left tens of thousands dead. The current violence has shattered a ceasefire declared in 2013.

Selahattin Demirtas openly acknowledges that his elder brother Nurettin went to the Qandil Mountain in Iraqi Kurdistan where the PKK’s military headquarters are based.

“I don’t even know if he’s dead or alive,” Selahattin Demirtas told AFP in an interview earlier this week.

Since it was established in 1984 the PKK has been fighting the Turkish state, which still denies the constitutional existence of Kurds, with the aim of creating an independent Kurdish state in Turkish Kurdistan region in the southeast of the country.

But now limited its demands to to establish an autonomous Kurdish region and more cultural rights for ethnic Kurds, who make up around 22.5 million of the country’s 75-million population but have long been denied basic political and cultural rights, its goal to political autonomy. A large Turkey’s Kurdish community openly sympathise with PKK rebels.

土耳其工人党成员驾驶装满2吨炸药的拖拉机，在靠近伊朗的一个哨所，袭击了土耳其军队，造成2名士兵死亡，31名士兵受伤，其中4名士兵伤势严重。另外，周六，在另外一省，一名土耳其士兵巡逻时遇袭身亡，7名士兵受伤。
亲库尔德人的反对派领袖指责土耳其总统利用打击伊斯兰国的幌子，打击伊拉克和叙利亚的库尔德人。

http://www.trust.org/item/20150802071417-yf94r/?

ISTANBUL, Aug 2 (Reuters) - The Turkish army said two of its soldiers were killed and 31 wounded in an attack overnight by the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), as violence escalated following Ankara's air bombardment of Kurdish militants in northern Iraq.

The suicide attack was carried out with a tractor loaded with two tonnes of explosives on a gendarmerie outpost in the Dogubeyazit district of eastern Agri province, bordering Iran, the provincial governor's office and the army said.

Four of the soldiers injured in the attack in which PKK militants also used rifles were in serious condition, the army said.

Another soldier was killed in Turkey's southeastern province of Mardin when a unit on patrol was attacked by the PKK late on Saturday night, the army said. Seven soldiers were also wounded in the incident.

Armed attacks by PKK militants in southeastern Turkey have increased since mid-July, much more so since Turkey began a campaign of air strikes on PKK camps in northern Iraq on July 24.

In what prime minister Ahmet Davutoglu has called a "synchronised fight against terror", Ankara has granted access of its bases to the U.S.-led coalition battling Islamic State, however so far the majority of Turkey's air bombardment has been on PKK targets.

Turkish officials have said the strikes against the PKK are a response to increased violence. Sunday's attacks have brought the number of security forces killed in attacks blamed on the PKK to at least sixteen, since July 20.

In an opinion piece published in Washington Post on July 31, Davutoglu said the operations would continue. "All terrorist organizations that target Turkey must know that their acts will not go unpunished and that we will respond to their acts with full resolve," he wrote.

"This is not to say that the process of seeking a solution is over; on the contrary, I am determined to take it forward," he said.

IRAQI REACTION

Massoud Barzani, the president of Iraq's Kurdistan region on Saturday condemned Turkey's bombardment of a village there which he said had killed civilians, and called for a return to the peace process.

In his statement, he has also called on the PKK to distance the war from KRG territory. "The PKK forces must move the battlefields away from Kurdistan," he said.

Turkey's foreign ministry said it was working with the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) to investigate claims of civilian casualties in the village of Zargala on Friday.

Western allies, including NATO and the United States, have supported Turkey's actions but several have also urged it not to use excessive force or to let years of peace efforts with Kurdish militants collapse.

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan initiated negotiations in 2012 to try to end the PKK insurgency, largely fought in the predominantly-Kurdish southeast and which has killed 40,000 people since 1984. The ceasefire, though fragile, had been holding since March 2013.

On Tuesday, Erdogan said the process had become impossible and urged parliament to strip politicians with links to the militants of immunity from prosecution.

The leader of Turkey's pro-Kurdish opposition has accused Erdogan of launching air strikes in Syria and Iraq to prevent Kurdish territorial and political gains, and of using the war against Islamic State as a cover. (Editing by William Hardy)

260名库尔德工人党成员被杀，380-400人受伤。
土耳其在遭到恐怖袭击后，开始了打击伊斯兰国和库尔德人的战争。但目前为止基本只专注于打击库尔德人。周五土耳其出动28架F16击毁65处目标。周四出动80架飞机袭击100处目标。

http://ekurd.net/260-kurdish-pkk-rebels-killed-in-turkey-air-strikes-2015-08-01?

ISTANBUL,— Around 260 members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) have been killed and hundreds more wounded in Ankara’s week-long campaign of air strikes against targets of the group inside Turkey and in Iraqi Kurdistan, the official Anatolia news agency said Saturday.

Without citing its sources, Anatolia said that among those wounded was Nurettin Demirtas, the brother of the leader of pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), Selahattin Demirtas.

Ankara has launched a two-pronged “anti-terror” offensive against Islamic State (IS) jihadists in Syria and Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants after a wave of attacks inside the country. But so far the bombardments have focused far more on the Kurdish rebels.

In the latest air strikes on Friday, 28 Turkish F-16s destroyed 65 targets of the PKK including shelters and arms depots, it said.

The heaviest air strikes were on Thursday, when 80 Turkish aircraft hit 100 targets of the PKK, Anatolia said.

“Up until now 260 terrorists have been rendered ineffective (killed) and 380-400 terrorists have been identified as injured, including the brother of Selahattin Demirtas, Nurettin Demirtas,” Anatolia said. The air strikes are expected to continue, it added.

The Turkish government has so far refused to officially disclose casualty figures, with one official telling AFP that “this is not a soccer game”.

But the sheer numbers of planes involved in the daily strikes on the PKK targets in Iraq’s Kurdistan Region has given an idea of the scale of the operation and raised concern in some Western capitals.

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Friday urged Turkey not to “tear down the bridges” that had been built over the last years with its Kurdish minority.

The PKK’s insurgency for greater rights and powers for Turkey’s Kurdish minority, begun more than 30 years ago, has left tens of thousands dead. The current violence has shattered a ceasefire declared in 2013.

Selahattin Demirtas openly acknowledges that his elder brother Nurettin went to the Qandil Mountain in Iraqi Kurdistan where the PKK’s military headquarters are based.

“I don’t even know if he’s dead or alive,” Selahattin Demirtas told AFP in an interview earlier this week.

Since it was established in 1984 the PKK has been fighting the Turkish state, which still denies the constitutional existence of Kurds, with the aim of creating an independent Kurdish state in Turkish Kurdistan region in the southeast of the country.

But now limited its demands to to establish an autonomous Kurdish region and more cultural rights for ethnic Kurds, who make up around 22.5 million of the country’s 75-million population but have long been denied basic political and cultural rights, its goal to political autonomy. A large Turkey’s Kurdish community openly sympathise with PKK rebels.