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Turkish Airstrikes Kill Kurds In Iraq Following Ankara Attack

Turkey have launched an attack on Kurds living in Iraq following a suicide car bombing on Sunday, that killed 37 in the Turkish capital.  Ankara have launched airstrikes on Kurdish militants on Monday, despite no evidence that they were responsible for Sunday’s blast. Washingtonpost.com reports: There was no assertion of responsibility for the attack, but Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said “very serious and almost certain” findings point to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, Turkey’s main militant faction. The group has waged a violent campaign since the 1980s — with a brief lull — in its quest for greater autonomy in Turkey’s Kurdish heartland. It also maintains bases over the border in northern Iraq. Battles between Kurdish militants and Turkish forces have escalated recently, adding yet another front in a region already in deep turmoil over the Syrian civil war and the Western-led campaign against the Islamic State militant group. Davutoglu said 11 people were detained in Sunday’s blast — which occurred about 200 yards from his office — but authorities gave no details about their background or possible affiliations. A woman was “definitely” one of the suicide attackers, Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus said. Authorities suspect that the [...]