Clashes With Kurds Are Pushing Turkey Back Toward Conflict -- New York TimesCIZRE, Turkey — Thousands of people filled the streets of this dusty town near the borders with Syria and Iraq on Sunday to mourn the death of a local heroine, a commander in a mountaintop training camp for Kurdish militants seeking autonomy for the country’s largely Kurdish southeast.
The elderly leaned on knotted wooden canes as they marched, and children in balaclavas fashioned from T-shirts gathered stones to throw at police officers at dusk, when the sounds of percussion bombs echoed through deserted streets. Chants exulting the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or P.K.K., mingled with condolences for the family of Cicek Botan, a native of Cizre and the middle-age P.K.K. commander who fought the Turkish state for more than two decades before being killed on Oct. 10 in a raid on a training camp in Iraq.
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More News On The Turkish - Kurdish Conflict
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Iraq border guards and PKK deny Turkey incursion -- AFP
Turkish troops cross into Iraq, head for Kurd rebel bases -- National Post/AFP
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Turkish tanks enter Northern Iraq -- Voice of Russia
Turkish forces target PKK Iraq camp: sources -- Reuters
Turkey Ends Military Operations against Kurdish Rebels in SE Turkey -- CRIEnglish, Xinhuanet
Turkey’s military chief: Up to 270 PKK terrorists killed -- Today's Zaman
The War Escalates Between Turkey and The Kurds -- IBTimes
Turkey's Transnational PKK Problem -- Richard Weitz, WPR
The Hazards in Turkey's New Strategy -- Judy Dempsey, New York Times
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