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Why is Turkey taking on Kurdish and Islamic State militants?

2015-07-28 1 Dailymotion

It was an attack last week that seemingly triggered Turkey’s unprecedented double battle against Kurdish and Islamic State militants.<br /><br /> 32 people were killed in a suicide bombing in the mainly Turkish Kurd town of Suruç, an attack Turkey deemed to be a threat to its very integrity. <br /><br /> The Islamic State was allegedly behind the bombing Kurdish protesters however have also blamed the Turkish government for colluding with IS – a charge it denies.<br /><br /> In response, Kurdish rebels from the PKK said they were responsible for killing at least two police officers.<br /><br /> Casting the operations as a war on terrorist groups “without distinction”, Turkey launched air strikes against Islamic State positions in Syria for the first time.<br /><br /> Additionally, it bombed PKK camps in northern Iraq for the first time in three years. Hundreds of suspected members of both groups have also been rounded up in raids across Turkey.<br /><br /> Some insiders have accused Turkey’s president of trying to seize an opportunity out of a

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