Turkish military

The issue of whether the independent ministers of the interim government will take the ministerial oath sparked debate at parliament on Sept. 3, during a session held to vote on a motion to reauthorize the Turkish military to conduct cross border operations in Iraq and Syria. 

One soldier was killed in an ambush staged by outlawed Kurdistan Workers? Party (PKK) militants in Turkey?s southeastern province of Hakkari on Sept. 1, a day after a police officer was killed in a PKK attack in the eastern province of Batman. 

The Turkish military reported Sept. 2 a Turkish troop was killed by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in an ambush that occurred in Hakkari, a southeastern Anatolian town bordering Iraq and Iran. 

The report by McClatchy, the U.S. publishing company, alleging that Turkish intelligence tipped off the al Qaeda-affiliated al-Nusra Front, and led to the recent routing by the group of opposition forces trained in Turkey by the U.S., has seriously ruffled Ankara?s feathers.

Foreign Ministry Spokesman Tanju Bilgic said the report was an ?ill-intentioned and lowly slander.?

A group of elderly locals have been camping for over eight days in a mountainous area just outside the Lice district of the southeastern province of Diyarbak?r, describing themselves ?voluntary human shields trying to prevent our sons from getting killed.?

Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) has announced that its T129 ATAK Advanced Attack and Tactical Reconnaissance Helicopter completed its first ever demonstration flights on Aug. 22-23 during the Radom Air Show in Poland.  

One soldier has been killed in the southeastern province of Diyarbak?r after outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants opened fire at gendarmerie forces guarding a hydroelectric plant while another army lieutenant also died in clashes in ??rnak.

The Turkish military has launched an aerial campaign and land operations against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers? Party (PKK) after a soldier was killed and three others were injured when militants from the group opened fire at gendarmerie forces guarding a hydroelectric plant in the southeastern province of Diyarbak?r?s Kulp district early on Aug. 23.

At least 41 suspected militants of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) have been killed in military operations, including air strikes in southeastern Turkey and northern Iraq, the Turkish military announced Aug. 22.
      

Clashes between the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and the Turkish security forces have spread to towns in Turkey's southeast, with curfews declared in the Lice and Silvan districts of Diyarbak?r province.