Terdapat pertempuran antara Kurd dan pasukan
keselamatan Turki sebagai sambutan atas Kurdi kejayaan tentera di negara jiran
Syria bertukar masam. Kejatuhan strategik Syria sempadan bandar Ras al-Ain
dengan militan Kurdish membawa beratus-ratus Kurd ke jalan-raya di wilayah
tenggara Turki daripada Cizre.
Masalah diikuti dengan sewajarnya. Polis bertindak
balas dengan meriam air sebagai penunjuk perasaan melontar kereta perisai
dengan mercun dan bom petrol. Kerajaan di Ankara takut bahawa jika wilayah
autonomi Kurdis ditubuhkan di Syria, ia boleh menggalakkan Kurd di Turki untuk
meningkatkan lagi dalam usaha mereka untuk mendapatkan autonomi.
Pemimpin Kurdis telah menuduh kerajaan mengheret kakinya
ke atas langkah-langkah ke arah keamanan, tetapi Ankara kata Kurd mesti
menyimpan pihak mereka yang sewajarnya dan menarik diri pejuang-pejuang di
utara Iraq.
There have been clashes between Kurds and Turkish
security forces as celebrations over Kurdish military success in neighbouring
Syria turned sour. The fall of the strategic Syrian border town Ras al-Ain to
Kurdish militants brought hundreds of elated Kurds onto the streets in Turkey's
southeastern province of Cizre.
Trouble duly followed. Police responded with water
cannon as protesters pelted armoured vehicles with firecrackers and petrol
bombs.
The government in Ankara is afraid that if an
autonomous Kurdish region is established in Syria, it could encourage Kurds in
Turkey to push further in their bid for autonomy.
Kurdish leaders have accused the government of
dragging its feet over steps towards peace, but Ankara says the Kurds must keep
their side of the bargain and withdraw fighters in northern Iraq.
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