{"id":11191,"date":"2012-07-26T06:31:05","date_gmt":"2012-07-26T13:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=11191"},"modified":"2012-07-26T06:31:05","modified_gmt":"2012-07-26T13:31:05","slug":"turkey-steps-up-rhetoric-in-attempt-to-draw-in-and-agitate-expanded-regional-war-pkk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=11191","title":{"rendered":"Turkey steps-up rhetoric in attempt to &#8220;draw in&#8221; and agitate expanded regional War PKK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Turkey warns it would strike PKK fighters inside Syria<\/strong><br \/>\n26 July, 2012 &#8211; Agence France Presse &#8211; The Daily Star<\/p>\n<p>PARIS: Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused Syria of letting Turkey&#8217;s Kurdish rebels operate inside the north of the country and warned that Ankara would not hesitate to strike against them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the north, it (President Bashar Assad&#8217;s regime) has allotted five provinces to the Kurds, to the terrorist organization,&#8221; Erdogan told Turkish television late Wednesday, referring to the Kurdistan Worker&#8217;s Party (PKK). Asked if Ankara would strike fleeing rebels after an attack on Turkish soil, Erdogan said &#8220;That&#8217;s not even a matter of discussion, it is a given. That is the objective, that is what must be done.&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailystar.com.lb\/News\/Middle-East\/2012\/Jul-26\/182065-turkey-warns-it-would-strike-pkk-fighters-inside-syria.ashx\" target=\"_blank\">&#8230;source<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"igit_tsb_button\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.crookedbough.com%2F%3Fp%3D11191&amp;text=Turkey+steps-up+rhetoric+in+attempt+to+%22draw+in%22+and+agitate+expanded+regional+War+PKK+&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey warns it would strike PKK fighters inside Syria 26 July, 2012 &#8211; Agence France Presse &#8211; The Daily Star PARIS: Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused Syria of letting Turkey&#8217;s Kurdish rebels operate inside the north of the country and warned that Ankara would not hesitate to strike against them. &#8220;In the north, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=11191#more-'\" class=\"more-link\">more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[3257],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11191"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11192,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11191\/revisions\/11192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}