Turkey kills 100 kurds

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Turkey's military said on Tuesday it had killed up to 100 Kurdish rebels in six days of air strikes on northern Iraq as guerrillas launched more attacks inside Turkey and Iraqi Kurds mourned their dead.

According to Reuters, Turkey's strikes are the first in the mountains of northern Iraq in more than a year and are meant as retaliation for an escalation of guerrilla attacks after the collapse of efforts to negotiate a settlement to the 27-year-old conflict.

In the town of Rania in Iraq's northern Kurdish region, relatives of seven Iraqis killed in an air strike on Sunday -- the first civilian casualties since the raids began last Wednesday -- questioned the Turkish tactics as they grieved the loss of a family, including young children.

'They were just farmers. They didn't cause problems for anyone. I want to ask why they were killed,' Yaqub Mustafa, the brother of Hussein Mustafa, who was killed along with his family in the strike, told Reuters.

'My brother was not a politician. He was not a soldier. He was not a fighter. So why did they attack him?' he said, standing outside the mosque in Rania where photographs of the deceased family were pinned to the wall.

The pictures showed Hussein with his wife, three children and two grandchildren.

The attacks have angered residents of the semi-autonomous Kurdish region, a relatively safe haven in war-torn Iraq where Turkish investors have flocked in recent years to build homes, offices and shopping malls.

At least 2,000 people protested on Sunday in Rania as the victims were buried, said Mayor Barham Ahmed Hama Rasheed, who called on the United Nations to intervene and stop the shelling.

'This is all so sad. They were just young children who were killed. We see the Turkish government on television, saying they are going to help the people in Somalia, and they come here to kill our children,' said Rania resident Saman Eskander.

Both Iraq's central government in Baghdad and the Kurdistan Regional Government in Arbil have condemned the shelling.
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ponder said:
What's new, think this has been going on for ages.
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yeah it has, 40 000 dead since the 80's alone

if the subject was israel kills 100 palestinians we'd be on page 7 already
 
dude, nobody cares about arabs killing arabs, have you not noticed?
 
Geez thats one helluva turkey. Gonna need a big Weber to cook that guy.
 
I read about the genocide of the Kurds in a book by Robert Fisk. I was suitably outraged. Then he started on his anti-Israel rant throwing his objectivity into doubt. I concluded that Fisk is a biased twat (he has lived in Lebanon for more than 20 years). Anti-Israel to the nth degree. I suppose he was a good war correspondent at one time. I wonder when the bias started in other conflicts? I wonder if all war correspondents turn into arseholes. A sort of devolution. Having Fisk document Kurd travails was the kiss-of-death.
 
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