Kurdish offensive in Turkey has indirect Syrian backing
By Roy Gutman
McClatchy Newspapers
SEMDINLI, Turkey -- Kurdish militants, who’ve been at war with the Turkish state for the past 30 years, tried out a new tactic this summer. As they cut the main road from the Iran and Iraq borders to the southeast Turkish market town of Semdinli, they declared that it wouldn’t be the familiar “hit and run” operation. This time it was “hit and stay.”
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