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BY ORKIDE IZCI
ANCHOR CHRISTINA HARTMAN

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Ten thousand Turkish forces launch an offensive against Kurdish rebels in southeastern Turkey.
It’s the largest military offensive in three years. The reason? News 24 explains why.

“Kurdish rebels killed 26 Turkish soldiers and injured 16 on Wednesday in simultaneous attacks in southeast Turkey, marking one of the deadliest days for the army in its fight against the separatists since 1984. The toll is the heaviest for the army since 1993...”
 

The Kurdistan Workers' Party -- or PKK -- is responsible for some 40,000 death since 1980s. Turkish President Abdullah Gul has promised a massive response.  But Ahmet Altan of the Turkish Newspaper Taraf says, that means things are going to be worse.

“The last attack is not a terrorist attack, this is a war. So how come the intelligence services could not be informed about this? This is a failure of the military which had a big loss and this is going to influence the future of the war, the war is going to be more violent and this is what PKK wants.”
 

Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan blames other countries have supported the PKK in the attacks.
He has promised The Turkish Republic, will fight terrorists and their supporters to the end.

To that end, The International Business Times reports, the Turkish military has already launched a series of counterattacks into northern Iraq after the PKK attack.

“Turkish combat planes and ground troops crossed the border into Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq Wednesday. Turkish news sources report that the [counter]-attack has killed 21 PKK members. … The retaliatory offensive is supported by the United States and NATO. The Turkish air force used bombers and helicopter gunships in the attack.”

Not everyone supports the offensive.
The Hurriyet Daily News has the view from the Peace and Democracy Party or (BDP).
The Kurdish political party is calling for negotiations.

“The Turkish government is responsible for the escalation in violence because of its reluctance to abandon military actions against the PKK.”
 

Famed Turkish journalist Hasan Cemal has built a career covering Kurdish issues.
He strongly condemned the PKK attack.

“[The] PKK must understand that Kurdish People do not want a war anymore. Kurdish and Turkish people have suffered a lot, have cried a lot and they do not want to see tears and blood anymore. The unique solution is peace, I want to talk about peace, not war!”
 

But the war seems assured.  Turkish newspaper Milliyet reports, Turkish paramilitary and special operations forces have occupied Kandil in northern Iraq, in search of more Kurdish rebels, who remain on the run. 

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