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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). 

Yesterday, we woke up to breaking news: Three Turkish F-16 fighter jets had bombed two ISIL headquarters in northern Syria, right near the Turkish border. Meanwhile, Turkish police detained some 290 people all across the country, not all but many suspected to be Islamic State of Iraq and the Levent (ISIL) members.

Amid mass detentions of hundreds of suspected members of both the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) as well as of other militant groups in coordinated dawn raids, both the president and the prime minister of Turkey have pledged further action against all outlawed groups, arguing separately the country's recent wave of violence have actua

The governor of Kilis, a Turkish city along the 910 km border with Syria, announced on July 23 that one soldier was killed and two other wounded as a result of open fire from the Syrian side.

U.S. President Barack Obama and Turkish President Tayyip Erdo?an agreed in a telephone call on July 22 to work together to "stem the flow of foreign fighters and secure Turkey's border with Syria," the White House said in a statement.

The barbaric terrorist attack in Suruç, a Turkish town just 10 kilometers from the Syrian border, not only killed 31 innocent souls and wounded dozens of others. It also shook the nation, showing that the fire beyond our southern borders can easily burn us as well. It is time to think seriously about this threat and understand what its perpetrators really want. 

One Turkish soldier was killed on July 20 in a gun attack by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in eastern Turkey, Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu has stated.

Every time there is a development that feeds the perception that Turkey favors radical Islamic groups over Kurdish groups in the Syrian civil war, the hashtag ?kick terrorist Turkey out of NATO? in different forms becomes viral. This was again the case when last week the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) staged a bombed attack in Kurdish-controlled Kobane. 

The NATO summit hosted in Turkey's coastal province of Antalya, which gathered the alliance's foreign ministers on May 13, saw joint calls for a more effective and coordinated struggle against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants. 

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said the organization would examine "all possibilities" against ISIL terror.