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Turkey to Continue Military Campaign Against Kurdish Militants

© AFP 2023 / ILYAS AKENGIN Armed Kurdish militants of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) stand behind a barricade during clashes with Turkish forces on September 28, 2015, at Bismil, in Diyarbakir
Armed Kurdish militants of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) stand behind a barricade during clashes with Turkish forces on September 28, 2015, at Bismil, in Diyarbakir - Sputnik International
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Turkish government forces will continue their military campaign against militants of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), the Turkish government said in a statement.

Armed Kurdish militants of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) stand behind a barricade during clashes with Turkish forces on September 28, 2015, at Bismil, in Diyarbakir - Sputnik International
Turkey Pro-Kurdish Party Urges Government, Kurdish Militants to Cease Fire
ANKARA (Sputnik) — On Tuesday, Turkey’s pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP) urged Ankara to cease police and military operations launched in July and the militants to stop hostilities.

"Our Prime Minister [Ahmet Davutoglu] ordered to continue carrying out intensive operations against the separatist terrorist organization despite the forthcoming winter," the statement published Wednesday read.

Tensions in Turkey escalated in mid-summer 2015, when authorities launched a military campaign against PKK militants in northern Iraq. The campaign started after a terrorist attack organized on July 20 by the Islamic State (ISIL) near the Turkish-Syrian border and after PKK militants took the responsibility for the murders of Turkish police officers in South-Eastern provinces.

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