Whose Side Is Turkey On?
GAZIANTEP, Turkey — Turkish warplanes took to the skies overnight Monday and launched airstrikes—not against Islamic militants as Washington has urged, but targeting Kurdish separatists in southeast Turkey. The attacks risk inflaming Kurdish anger and shattering a two-year peace process between the government and insurgents of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, the PKK. The strikes also will complicate President Barack Obama’s efforts to persuade Turkey to join in the fight against the so-called Islamic State, widely known as ISIS or ISIL.
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