ISTANBUL/SURUC: War against Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq threatened yesterday to unravel the delicate peace in neighbouring Turkey after the Turkish air force bombed Kurdish fighters furious over Ankara’s refusal to help protect their kin in Syria.
Turkey’s banned PKK Kurdish militant group accused Ankara of violating a two-year-old cease-fire with the air strikes. “For the first time in nearly two years, an air operation was carried out against our forces by the occupying Turkish Republic army,” the PKK said.
“These attacks against two guerrilla bases at Daglica violated the ceasefire,” the PKK said, referring to an area near the border with Iraq. The unrest in Turkey raised serious concerns that a peace process between Turkey and its Kurds could be in danger of collapse. reuters
