PKK / PJAK & BDP

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Guys, is it true that Ocalan is Alwitte? This is what i heard in the Opposite Direction tv program at Aljazeera.

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Guys, is it true that Ocalan is Alwitte? This is what i heard in the Opposite Direction tv program at Aljazeera.

What is Alwitte

[alan131210]

Guys, is it true that Ocalan is Alwitte? This is what i heard in the Opposite Direction tv program at Aljazeera.

What is Alwitte

Shiite

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QANDIL, Kurdistan Region -- The People’s Defence Forces, known by its Kurdish initials as (HPG) -- an armed wing of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) -- claim that the Shemzinan area is no longer under Turkey’s control.

Bakhtiyar Dogan, spokesperson of the HPG, said the group’s guerillas had besieged Turkish army camps in the area. “Shemzinan is currently under the control of our guerrillas. Most of the Turkish army bases in the area are under siege and no longer under the control of the Turkish army,” he told Rudaw.

“Turkish helicopters and fighter jets have been trying to fly over, but due to HPG’s attacks they have withdrawn from the area. The Turkish army has failed to end the besiegement,” Dogan said.

The assault on Turkish military outposts in Shemzinan began on July 23 and is ongoing, despite Turkish efforts to put an end to the clashes.

Dogan said, “We are protecting our people and continuing our struggle against the occupation of Kurdistan. We will expand the areas of our struggle. We have adopted expansionist tactics in other cities of Kurdistan. We will stand against Turkey’s anti-Kurdish politics.”

According to HPG’s announcements, 200 Turkish soldiers have been killed since the assault began. However, the Turkish interior minister claims that eight Turkish soldiers and 114 guerrillas have been killed.

In this regard, Dogan says that the HPG informs the public of the results of its attacks, but that the Turkish government is conducting a media, as well as a military, campaign.

“Turkey considers itself the second most powerful force in NATO,” he said. “Therefore, it does not want to publish the actual causalities from the fight … and doubles and triples the casualties of the HPG to mislead the Turkish public.”

To back up this claim, Dogan notes that HPG guerillas have seized weapons from 20 killed soldiers, more than double the number of casualties the minister reported.

On August 3, Murat Karayilan, the acting head of the PKK, announced that the group had a new policy. “No longer is the inside/outside borders terminology valid. That terminology is history,” he said, noting that PKK fighters were 35 kilometers deep inside Turkish borders.

Dogan said, “The Turkish government continues its policy of eliminating the Kurdish people and guerrilla forces in 2012. In order to move the Kurdish problem a step forward, we have started a new revolutionary assault.”

According to Dogan, HPG guerrillas have targeted military camps in Celi, Girde, Sere Sewe, Blican and Qarapash – all in zone 49 -- in the past few days. The Turkish military has responded by bombarding the area with F16s, Sikorsky helicopters and mortar rockets.

The goal of the HPG assault, its spokesperson said, is to end the occupation of Kurdistan. “The Turkish occupation is eliminating Kurdish people. Therefore, we have adopted a new policy, which has started with controlling Shemzinan. We will expand the war. I believe Kurdish people welcome the HPG’s revolutionary tactic,” Dogan said.

He added that, besides Shemzinan, HPG guerrillas are spreading into Dersim, Amed, Sarhad, Botan, Hakkari, Sirnax and many other cities in Turkish Kurdistan.

“However, the conditions in Shemzinan are different,” Dogan said. “We have adopted a new tactic in Shemzinan. For the freedom of Kurdistan, we have to expand this tactic.”

http://www.rudaw.net/english/kurds/5075.html

[alan131210]

Aug 3rd 2012, 17:42 by A.Z. | ANKARA

ALONG Turkey’s southern border, in a far-flung corner of the country that is wedged between Iraq and Iran, separatist rebels of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) have been waging one of the fiercest battles in recent years against the Turkish army. For nearly two weeks, PKK rebels entrenched around the township of Semdinli in the Hakkari province have resisted an onslaught by Turkish helicopters and fighter jets that have been pounding the mountainous terrain, setting fire to forests and forcing hundreds of villagers to flee. The battle is said to have spread to the outskirts of Semdinli, an impoverished town of 19,500 where sympathy for the PKK runs strong.

Sedat Tore, Semdinli’s mayor from the pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) says the din of artillery and bombs "is terrorising our people". Plumes of smoke have enveloped the town. "We are in a circle of fire," implores Mr Tore.

Details of the clashes remains sketchy because the combat zone has remained sealed off by the army ever since the battle started on July 24th. The army moved in following reports that PKK militants had set up checkpoints along a road connecting Semdinli to the northern town of Derecik and blown up several small bridges. The PKK claims to have killed as many as 49 Turkish soldiers and that it is controlling the areas surrounding Semdinli. The army denies the claims saying it has lost only two men and that it has killed at least 37 PKK rebels. "We really don’t know what is happening because the government won’t allow us to go in [to the combat zone]" said Esat Canan, a BDP MP in Semdinli, who expressed concern for villagers caught in the conflict.

The shroud of mystery thickened after Turkey’s foreign minister, Ahmet Davutoğlu, told a group of journalists this week that he knew what was happening in Semdinli but that "I won’t tell you." Turkish officials claim that the army has foiled PKK plans to spark an "Arab Spring" type uprising in the region but have failed to explain why the fighting has gone on for so long. A PKK affiliated website claimed on August 3rd that the rebels had launched a separate attack in the township of Eruh further west killing at least 11 soldiers. Turkish officials acknowledged that two soldiers died in the attack.

The rebels are expected to further escalate the violence before August 15th, which marks the 28th anniversary of their campaign for an independent Kurdish state uniting some 30m Kurds, scattered across Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria. They have been emboldened by recent gains by Syrian Kurds, led by a sister group in the Democratic Union Party (known by its Kurdish initials PYD), which has wrested control of a string of Kurdish majority Syrian towns along the Turkish border.

Turkey has responded by beefing up its troops and ordinance along the border and threatening to intervene should the PKK use Syria as a launching pad for its operations. Amid all the chest-pounding there are some hopeful signs that Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development (AK) party has not abandoned reforms in favour of an all out (and long tested) "military solution" to the Kurdish problem. Even as the Turkish jets continued to rain bombs around Semdinli, AK MPs in Ankara gathered with opposition members in the Turkish parliament to thrash out the draft of a new constitution that the prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has promised to deliver.

The wording is expected to pave the way for the Kurds’ long-standing demands to educate their children in their long-banned mother tongue and to shelve references to Turkish ethnicity in relation to citizenship. But there is a hitch. According to the drafting committee’s own rules there needs to be unanimity among members for any new article to be approved. The far-right Nationalist Action Party, which denies there is a Kurdish problem, is pushing back. To his credit Mr Erdogan has done more than any of his predecessors to improve the Kurds’ lot. But unless he resumes talks with the rebels that broke down last year, the scenes in Semdinli are likely to be repeated.

the economist

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http://rudaw.net/kurdish/index.php/news/16372.html

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Turkish armed forces have ended an almost three-week operation against Kurdish militants in the southeast region of Semdinli, bordering Iran and Iraq, the local governor said in a statement on Saturday.

Turkish jets have bombarded Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) positions around the mountainous region in one of most intense bouts of fighting in recent years in a decades-long conflict which has killed 40,000 people.

"The aerial-supported operations launched by our security forces on July 23, 2012 ... were completed on August 11, 2012 morning," said the governor's office of Hakkari, the province where Semdinli is located.

http://www.kurdsat.tv/news.php?id=877&type=kurdistan

[alan131210]

and they have decided it is too late and have given up on shamzinan, what city is next i wonder.

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QANDIL, Kurdistan Region -- The People’s Defence Forces, known by its Kurdish initials as (HPG) -- an armed wing of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) -- claim that the Shemzinan area is no longer under Turkey’s control.

Bakhtiyar Dogan, spokesperson of the HPG, said the group’s guerillas had besieged Turkish army camps in the area. “Shemzinan is currently under the control of our guerrillas. Most of the Turkish army bases in the area are under siege and no longer under the control of the Turkish army,” he told Rudaw.

“Turkish helicopters and fighter jets have been trying to fly over, but due to HPG’s attacks they have withdrawn from the area. The Turkish army has failed to end the besiegement,” Dogan said.

The assault on Turkish military outposts in Shemzinan began on July 23 and is ongoing, despite Turkish efforts to put an end to the clashes.

Dogan said, “We are protecting our people and continuing our struggle against the occupation of Kurdistan. We will expand the areas of our struggle. We have adopted expansionist tactics in other cities of Kurdistan. We will stand against Turkey’s anti-Kurdish politics.”

According to HPG’s announcements, 200 Turkish soldiers have been killed since the assault began. However, the Turkish interior minister claims that eight Turkish soldiers and 114 guerrillas have been killed.

In this regard, Dogan says that the HPG informs the public of the results of its attacks, but that the Turkish government is conducting a media, as well as a military, campaign.

“Turkey considers itself the second most powerful force in NATO,” he said. “Therefore, it does not want to publish the actual causalities from the fight … and doubles and triples the casualties of the HPG to mislead the Turkish public.”

To back up this claim, Dogan notes that HPG guerillas have seized weapons from 20 killed soldiers, more than double the number of casualties the minister reported.

On August 3, Murat Karayilan, the acting head of the PKK, announced that the group had a new policy. “No longer is the inside/outside borders terminology valid. That terminology is history,” he said, noting that PKK fighters were 35 kilometers deep inside Turkish borders.

Dogan said, “The Turkish government continues its policy of eliminating the Kurdish people and guerrilla forces in 2012. In order to move the Kurdish problem a step forward, we have started a new revolutionary assault.”

According to Dogan, HPG guerrillas have targeted military camps in Celi, Girde, Sere Sewe, Blican and Qarapash – all in zone 49 -- in the past few days. The Turkish military has responded by bombarding the area with F16s, Sikorsky helicopters and mortar rockets.

The goal of the HPG assault, its spokesperson said, is to end the occupation of Kurdistan. “The Turkish occupation is eliminating Kurdish people. Therefore, we have adopted a new policy, which has started with controlling Shemzinan. We will expand the war. I believe Kurdish people welcome the HPG’s revolutionary tactic,” Dogan said.

He added that, besides Shemzinan, HPG guerrillas are spreading into Dersim, Amed, Sarhad, Botan, Hakkari, Sirnax and many other cities in Turkish Kurdistan.

“However, the conditions in Shemzinan are different,” Dogan said. “We have adopted a new tactic in Shemzinan. For the freedom of Kurdistan, we have to expand this tactic.”

http://www.rudaw.net/english/kurds/5075.html

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HPG CRASH COBRA 24 turkish terrorist soldiers killed and taking turkish army weapons KURD

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lL-z18X_mc&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&hd=1   

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https://www.youtube.com/embed/rMrZK6Ac1Ic

[alan131210]

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and they have decided it is too late and have given up on shamzinan, what city is next i wonder.

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