Rojava/ Kurdish Regions Newswire

[Sasha]

More than thousand people arested in the turkish police operations so far, the vast majority kurdish or alevi (dev-yol) leftists.

A DHKC-P militant got killed during clashes in istanbul, the cops are laying siege to the Alevi house of worship in Gazi (a dev-yol stronghold neighboorhood in istanbul) to prevent the burial.

[ckaihatsu]

It was the action of Anarchy Initiative which made an international call for solidarity action against Turkish fascist government. Also other groups, autonoms and individuals joined the action in Eskişehir.
Anarchists who gathered in front of Migros (Adalar) and started to march were attacked by police. And 17 anarchist arrested. Other activists dispersed to the streets and cafes. Then, fascgist groups appeared in the streets to annoy the protestors. Some fascists applauded police who were arresting some anarchists.

At the risk of stating the obvious, this anarchist action exposes the true politics of the Turkish state -- it's not going after the *fascists* as 'violent extremists' *at all*, in the way that it goes after the PKK (a workers' organization).

[khad]

To get this thread back on track, footage today from liberated Sarrin

+ YouTube Video

[Sentinel]

Let's keep this a newswire. Debate posts split into new thread.

[Sasha]

Senior Western official: Links between Turkey and ISIS are now 'undeniable'; http://uk.businessinsider.com/links-...-7?r?r=US&IR=T

[Sasha]

PKK has started to blow up natural gas pipelines between iran and turkey in retaliation for the airstrikes

[khad]

A discussion I caught earlier, in case anyone is interested in numbers. Yeah, yeah, rumors I know, but that's all we get with the secrecy around the recent events.

"May the dead rest in peace, but "reportedly killing four PKK guerrillas and injuring more than 10 others." means that the two sides are at the same number of martyrs. Can we now kindly keep this down to a slapfight, and get on with destroying Da3sh ?"

"Not always.
There were rumours that atleast ~60 bodies have been brought back to Turkey and only allowed in after HDP promised to keep the funerals on a downlow and not turn it in to mass protests..
But only rumours ofc."

"If that is true, and the PKK/HDP/etc are trying to keep funerals on the downlow, then that is a very good thing, as it means the peace process is back on.
Both sides slapped each other, reassured each other that, if neccessary, they could bring it on ... and then stopped."

[Sasha]

a look at the pro-turkey lobby in US politics; https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2...tary-aid-isis/

[Sasha]

the more strong worded article from The Guardian referenced in my above links; http://www.theguardian.com/world/201...P=share_btn_tw

[Sasha]

A discussion I caught earlier, in case anyone is interested in numbers. Yeah, yeah, rumors I know, but that's all we get with the secrecy around the recent events.

"May the dead rest in peace, but "reportedly killing four PKK guerrillas and injuring more than 10 others." means that the two sides are at the same number of martyrs. Can we now kindly keep this down to a slapfight, and get on with destroying Da3sh ?"

"Not always.
There were rumours that atleast ~60 bodies have been brought back to Turkey and only allowed in after HDP promised to keep the funerals on a downlow and not turn it in to mass protests..
But only rumours ofc."

"If that is true, and the PKK/HDP/etc are trying to keep funerals on the downlow, then that is a very good thing, as it means the peace process is back on.
Both sides slapped each other, reassured each other that, if neccessary, they could bring it on ... and then stopped."

lots of talk in turkey that this all a very deliberate ploy to reshuffle the cards for the upcoming snap election, if the AKP can push enough of the non-Kurdish voters away from the HDP that they drop below the 10percent threshold the AKP will get at least its majority back in parliament and might even get Erdoghan his true price, the 2/3th majority it needs to transform turkey in a presidential republic.

[SocialRepublican]

Hurriyet Daily is reporting that 190 PKK militants have so far been killed in Turkish air raids. Still no word about the supposed operations against Daesh by either the Turkish state or Daesh.
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/190...&NewsCatID=341

Also, MHP and AKP have denied the proposal for an inquest into the Suruc massacre and subsequent 'terror attacks' put forward by the CHP and supported by the HDP; AKP motion to have HDP co-leader Demirtas stripped of his immunity from prosecution backfires as all HDP and CHP ministers apply to have theirs taken away and dare the right wing reactionaries to do the same and of the 1,060 arrested on the so called terror raids only 137 were Daesh, all others were Kurds and Alevis allegedly affiliated with the PKK, DHKP-C or members of the HDP.

[Sasha]

3 more turkish soldiers killed in an ambush in Sirnak province

[Sasha]

4 people died in a attack on a police station in the Turkish city of Adana, 2 cops and 2 militants

[Sasha]

24 turkish soldiers injured, 2 killed in a suicide attack with a mother fucking explosive laden tractor...

240 pkk fighters dead so far in airs strikes according to regime loyal media

[Sentinel]

The military successes of the YPG/J and allies continue despite the new indirect turkish air support for Daesh. Hasakah was declared totally liberated yesterday.

[ckaihatsu]

[LaborTech] We won’t accept oppression, and we won’t bow to censorship: Sendika.Org will not be silenced!


We won’t accept oppression, and we won’t bow to censorship: Sendika.Org will not be silenced!

http://www.sendika1.org/2015/07/we-w...t-be-silenced/

25 Temmuz 2015

The censorship against the free press is an attack against the people’s right to news by a fascist government that has stooped to launching a war and exploding bombs, all with the goal of staying in power. It is not simply a question of obstructing access to a few oppositional news sites; it is an attempt to obstruct access to democracy. In short, it is fascism. Against this fascist attack, we will not retreat; we will do what is necessary to battle fascism. During this battle, Sendika.Org will continue; it has not been silenced, and it will not be silenced!



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While giving the order for war, war criminals Tayyip Erdoğan and Ahmet Davutoğlu have also moved to silence the free press. On the morning of 25 July, access to Sendika.Org, ANF, ANHA, DİHA, Rojnews, Yüksekova Haber, Özgür Gündem and BestaNuçe was all blocked.

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[ckaihatsu]

Anti-war leader denounces the U.S./Turkey attempts to create ‘no fly zone’ in Syria


Anti-war leader denounces the U.S./Turkey attempts to create ‘no fly zone’ in Syria

Turkey redoubles war on Syria, Kurds and the left

By staff

Chicago, IL – Chicago-based anti-war leader Joe Iosbaker is speaking out against the latest U.S./Turkey attacks on Syria and the Kurds. “What does it mean that the U.S. and its NATO junior partner, Turkey, are creating a ‘Safe Zone’ along the Turkey-Syria border? The first result is that dozens of Turkish fighter planes are engaging in attacks against the Kurdistan Workers Party in Syria as well as in Iraq. In Turkey, they’re cracking down on Kurds and the left, with hundreds of arrests.”

“And what of U.S. aims in Syria with this so-called Safe Zone? U.S. air strikes against the ‘Islamic State’ will increase, no doubt. They’ll drive them out of this area, and then turn it over to a more compliant puppet army,” continued Iosbaker.

Speaking on the aims of this widening war, Iosbaker stated, “The real purpose to the U.S. attacks on the so called Islamic State is the overthrow of the government of President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus. The plan for this Safe Zone is to turn it into the first ‘No Fly Zone’ over Syria. No Fly Zones are a tool in the imperialist arsenal, as we saw when the U.S. and NATO imposed the No Fly Zone on Libya in 2011. U.S. objectives haven’t changed in the Middle East: it wants to impose the Wall Street agenda on the people there.”

Read more News and Views from the Peoples Struggle at http://www.fightbacknews.org. You can write to us at [email protected]

[khad]

A 2-ton PKK SVBIED just detonated in the eastern Turkish town of Dogubeyazit, right along the Iranian border, killing 2 Turkish soldiers and wounding 24.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/03/wo...tack.html?_r=0

[Sasha]

dutch national news tonight suddenly made a huge turn around on the sympathy slant towards the turkish state. while yesterday it was still mostly even handed or even critical of the turkish state "sinking the peace process" tonight is was all "justified retaliations against continuing terror attacks". it was so obvious they got new marching orders it was almost obscene. wondering now whether turkey demanded that the upcoming "buffer zone" invasion will happen under NATO flag

[Sasha]

lots of violence in turkey today;

4 cops killed, 1 critically injured in a IED attack on a police APV near the turkish/kurdish town of Silopi

1 soldier killed, 7 injured on a attack on a military helicopter that was taking off, not specified where but somehwere in turkish kurdistan

3 killed, 10 injured in a car bomb attack on a police station in istanbul, after it caught fire most of the cop station collapsed. the remains got attacked again a few hours later...

1 man, 1 woman opened fire on the US consulate in istanbul and got into a firefight with the cops. 1 woman later arrested as a suspect.

the northern-kurdistan attacks are all expected to be PKK attacks, the istanbul attacks are unclear, could be PKK but DHKC-P, MLKP or maybe even Daesh seems more likely.