Kurdish–Turkish conflict

Turkey has called for a meeting of its NATO allies to discuss threats to its security and its airstrikes targeting the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Syria and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in Iraq, as Turkey boosts international efforts to gain support for the strikes. 

NATO's secretary general said Ankara has not yet asked for any military support. 

The Turkish military on July 26 launched new air strikes on Kurdish militants in northern Iraq as Ankara invoked an article of NATO to call a meeting of the military alliance over its campaign against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
 

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu said the military operations against Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) targets in Syria and the Kurdistan Workers? Party (PKK) in Iraq on July 23 and 24 have ?changed the regional game.?

German Chancellor Angela Merkel on July 26 urged Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu to stick with the Kurdish peace process despite escalating violence, her office said.

The outlawed Kurdistan Workers? Party (PKK) has said the ceasefire between it and the Turkish government has ?lost its meaning? after the Turkish army?s airstrikes against PKK camps in northern Iraq, which began on July 24. 

More than 600 suspects have been detained in anti-terror police operations against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) as Turkish security forces launched a series of vast anti-terror operations in multiple provinces across Turkey on July 24.

Two Turkish soldiers were killed and four were injured in the town of Lice, in Diyarbakir province, when a car bomb went off while their military vehicle was passing by, Anadolu news agency reported on Sunday.

The Diyarbakir province governor's office said that the security forces have launched an investigation to find the perpetrators. 

The United States condemns recent attacks by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants in Turkey, a senior U.S. diplomat said on Twitter, adding there was "no connection" between Turkey's strikes against the PKK and a deal to intesify the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). 

The United States condemns recent attacks by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) Kurdish militants in Turkey, a senior U.S. diplomat said on Twitter, adding there was "no connection" between Turkey's strikes against the PKK and a deal to intesify the fight against Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). 

Two Turkish soldiers have been killed and four others have been injured in a car bomb attack in the southeastern province of Diyarbak?r as retaliatory operations on Turkish security personnel have left deaths and injuries across the country amid cross-border airstrikes in Syria and northern Iraq.