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Kurdish Militants End Ceasefire With Ankara After Turkey’s Airstrikes

© AP Photo / Hussein MallaA Kurdish man waves a flag of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, known as PKK, right, and a flag with a portrait of the jailed Turkish Kurdish guerrilla leader Abdullah Ocalan, left, during a demonstration demanding his release, in Beirut, Lebanon
A Kurdish man waves a flag of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, known as PKK, right, and a flag with a portrait of the jailed Turkish Kurdish guerrilla leader Abdullah Ocalan, left, during a demonstration demanding his release, in Beirut, Lebanon - Sputnik International
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The armed wing of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) ended a three-year-long ceasefire agreement with Turkey after Ankara carried out a series of airstrikes on PKK training camps and bases in Iraq.

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MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The armed wing of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) announced that its three-year-long ceasefire agreement with Ankara is over following Friday airstrikes carried out by the Turkish Air Force on its positions in northern Iraq, the Turkish ANF news site reported Saturday.

The ceasefire deal was "unilaterally terminated" as Ankara carried out a series of airstrikes on PKK training camps and bases near its border with Iraq, the group’s military command said in a statement quoted by the ANF news site.

Turkish police are currently conducting a nationwide counterterrorism operation, targeting what Ankara describes as 'terrorist' organizations, including the PKK, a political opposition faction founded in 1978.

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The PKK, a political group listed as a terrorist organization by Ankara, was created to support self-determination for Turkey's Kurds, comprising some 25 percent of the country's population.

On Wednesday, the PKK claimed responsibility for killing two Turkish police officers in the nearby city of Ceylanpinar, claiming the policemen had backed IS.

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