Saturday Attack: Kurdish and Government Crackdown

saturday attack: Saturday attack, which a radical Kurdish group claimed as an act of revenge for state violence against the ethnic minority in the southeast, was the deadliest to hit Istanbul this year, according to Brandon Sun. Authorities blamed the carnage on the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK. A shadowy offshoot of the movement, which has waged a decades-long insurgency against the state, claimed responsibility for the attack on a website that is blocked in Turkey. The arrests primarily targeted members of a Kurdish political party that already was a focus of a broader government crackdown. This is definitely a repercussion of the current crackdown on the Kurdish people, said Cenk Sidar, president of Sidar Global Advisors, a risk advisory group in Washington. Turkey, a NATO member and a partner in the U.S.-led campaign against the Islamic State group, faces a myriad of internal and external security threats. It seems likely PKK will go ahead with these high-casualty, low-cost attacks for them, and it is a very dangerous trend in the country. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.