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Turkey-Kurdistan Border: Ten minutes to
midnight
25.4.2006
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The armies of Turkey and
Iran are getting ready for showdown with the PKK.
About 230,000 Turkish soldiers have been massing
along the border with southern Kurdistan (northern
Iraq) since April 2. The Iranians, in coordination
with the Turks, have massed along "their" border
with southern Kurdistan with about 30,000-50,000
soldiers according to Kurdish non-media sources
close to HPG.
Turkish and Iranian incursions into southern
Kurdistan have already occurred, and one Turkish
battalion has already positioned itself within the
borders of southern Kurdistan. Turkish forces
crossed the border in two occasions on week 15.
Incursions occurred at the Sirnak-Zaxo and the
Esendere (Shemzinan [Semdinli])-Barzan borders, the
HPG Press and Liaison Center (HPG-BIM) reported on
April 13. |
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On April 23, one Turkish
battalion moved and positioned itself inside
southern Kurdistan close to Shemzinan (Semdinli).
HPG identified it as a preparation and scout unit.
Some sources call the battalion an "expendable bait"
in order to easily justify a full-scale invasion if
attacked. The battalion are currently under
supervision by HPG scouts and special forces.
All Turkish gendarmerie bases in the Gerdiya area
have been filled with soldiers from the Mountain
Commando Brigades of Bolu and Kayseri. Two commando
brigades, a total of 3,000 soldiers, from Bolu and
Kayseri have been sent to the area. [1] |
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BIM also reports that a
battalion of Turkish commando soldiers from the
brigades has positioned itself at the zero point
border in Gerdiya. The Bolu brigade is currently
positioned in or around the Ikizce battalion in the
Gabar mountains in the Sirnak province, with some
selected soldiers positioned along the zero point.
Only a small number of the 200,000 Turkish soldiers
— the majority of them mechanized brigades,
artillery units and commando forces — have been
positioned at the zero points. The leaves for all
soldiers positioned in Kurdistan have been canceled
for six months and current leaves have been
recalled. |
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Iranian forces
conducting military operations, in coordination with
the Turkish army, in the Kelaresh area — located
between Salmas and Maku in eastern Kurdistan and
which stretches into southern Kurdistan — clashed
with HPG guerrillas on the 18th day of the military
operations. A HPG unit was ambushed by Iranian
soldiers, triggering a fierce clash where two HPG
guerrillas and six Iranian soldiers, of them one
Major, were killed. BIM identified the martyred HPG
guerrillas as Ersin Sefil (Memyan) of Erzurum and
Cemil Yildirim (Özgür Deniz), 29, of Ankara. The
clash occurred in the Kelaresh area of southern
Kurdistan.
On the evening of April 20, Iranian artillery
shelled the HPG headquarters in Lolan (southern
Kurdistan) and Xeci Umran with Katyusha rockets,
killing three HPG guerrillas. [2] BIM identified the
martyred guerrillas as Ismail Sêx (Haki Kobani),
Mehmet Sami Hülagü and Sinan Altun (Dogan). |
PHOTOS OF TURKISH TROOP BUILDUP AT THE ZERO POINTS
Photo:Dozame.org |
OTHER NEWS FROM TURKEY AND IRAN’S WAR AGAINST THE
KURDISH PEOPLE
HPG also reported that between 20:00 and 21:00 (8-9
pm EET) on April 19, Turkish artillery from the
Sivot battalion had shelled HPG headquarters in the
Haftanin area of southern Kurdistan. There were no
HPG casualties in the Turkish attack.
A total of 12 Turkish soldiers have been killed in
several clashes on April 16-17 in the Besta area of
rural Sirnak between the Kurdish HPG and the Turkish
army. A Turkish sergeant was also killed on April 17
in the Alibogazi area of the Dersim province.
Turkish operations against the HPG guerrillas
started on are still being conducted in the Dicle
district of Amed (Diyarbakir). The villages affected
of Turkish operations are Herdan (Kirkpinar),
Pirajman (Kursunlu), Ersek (Gelincik), Gozel (Bogaz)
and Tornagrak (Küpetas).
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[1] The commando brigades from Bolu and Kayseri are
not registered with the NATO and have played the
most polemic and violent role in Turkey’s war
against the Kurdish people. One Bolu brigade is
responsible for the security of the one-man special
military prison island of Imrali, where the Kurdish
national leader Abdullah Ocalan is imprisoned.
Cadres of the Turkish black-operation
counter-insurgency forces, like the infamous JITEM,
get their psychological indoctrination in Kayseri
and military training in Bolu.
[2] Lolan, located in the Bradost province of
southern Kurdistan, was claimed by the PKK in 1983
and has been in the control of the Kurdish
resistance since then. The ‘Advance of August 15′ in
1984 was planned and organized in Lolan.
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