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ISTANBUL, TURKEY

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has threatened to launch military operations in Iraq and Syria against the Kurdish rebel group the PKK, which Ankara considers a terrorist organization.

In a television interview to curry support for next weeks referendum to extend his presidential powers, Erdogan announced the military is preparing new cross-border operations against the PKK. He said Turkey's ending of Operation Euphrates Shield, which targeted both the PKK and Islamic State in Syria, was not the end of such incursions into its southern neighbor.

Erdogan said, "...future operations would have an Iraqi dimension along with a Syrian dimension.

Observers point out that a tough stance against the PKK, which is fighting for minority rights, plays well with Turkish nationalists being courted by Erdogan in the referendum. Ankara has pledged to eradicate the Syrian Kurdish group the PYD and its YPG militia, which it accuses of being affiliated with the PKK.

The PYD controls large swathes of territory along Turkeys border and the Turkish army has deployed a large military force on the frontier.

The United States and Russia strongly back the Syrian Kurdish fighters who comprise the backbone of Syrian Democratic Forces besieging Raqqa, Islamic States self-declared capital.

Washingtons deepening collaboration with the SDF, has seen it stepping up its presence in the PYD controlled region, We see now four operational forward bases constructed by the United States, in addition to an extended airbase which will be operational, said Aydin Selcen, a former senior Turkish diplomat who severed widely across the region.

Selcen warned such a deployment has implications for Ankara too, The U.S. presence is definitely an insurance policy for the Kurds near future.

Voices are increasingly warning any Turkish military incursion into the Syrian Kurdish region would risk serious repercussions beyond its fight against the PKK.

It's not only going to be a matter of Turkish Kurdish relations, it's going to be Turkish Arab relations, Turkish Russian, Turkish American, Turkish Iraqi Turkish Syrian, predicted Ertugral Kurkcu a deputy for the pro-Kurdish HDP in the Turkish parliament. And maybe it's the abyss for Tayyip Erdogan if he cannot refrain from such miscalculated attempts. If this happens it's going to be total disaster for everyone. But I think others will help Turkey to refrain from such actions.

FILE - Militants from the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, run as they attack Turkish security forces in Nusaydin, Turkey, March 1, 2016.

Erdogan warns Turkish troops may intervene against PKK backed militia in the Iraqi Sinjar region, as well as also targeting its bases deep in Iraqi Kurdistan.

Observers point out such operations are fraught with military risks and the possibility of further exacerbating already tense relations among neighbors.

Despite such risks some analysts don't rule out such a military operation, It's very difficult to know, if the president has been reckless enough to accuse Germany of Nazi like behavior you wonder how much rationality has been left in this administration, political consultant Atilla Yesilada of Global Source Partners pointed out.

I think it's a non-negligible possibility that there would be some kind of move against the Kurds directly from the border. I am very afraid of it because it would create a fire storm in the world community and it would mean war with the Syrian Kurds and could spread to Kurds in Turkey, he said.

Observers point out Turkish foreign policy is increasingly falling victim to the referendum campaign. With opinion polls indicating the result remaining too close to call political calculations could well trump all other considerations in the coming days.

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoan, who has been waging a relentless war against followers of the faith-based Glen movement in Turkey for the past several years, has said Glen movement sympathizers in the country will not enjoy the right to life.

Speaking at a rally in the Black Sea province of Zonguldak on Tuesday, Erdoan said: We are purging every Glenist in the army, in the police and in state institutions. And we will continue cleansing [these organizations of] them because we will eradicate this cancer from the body of this country and the state. They will not enjoy the right to life. They divided this nation, this Ummah [Islamic nation]. Our fight against them will continue until the end. We wont leave them wounded.

Turkey survived a military coup attempt on July 15 which killed over 240 people and wounded more than a thousand others. Immediately after the putsch, the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government along with President Erdoan pinned the blame on the Glen movement.

The movement denies any involvement.

In the currently ongoing post-coup purge, over 135,000 people, including thousands within the military, have been purged due to their real or alleged connection to the Glen movement, according to a statement by the labor minister on Jan. 10. As of March 1, 93,248 people were being held without charge, with an additional 46,274 in pre-trial detention.

According to a statement from Interior Minister Sleyman Soylu on April 2, a total of 113,260 people have been detained as part of investigations into the Glen movement since the July 15 coup attempt while 47,155 were put into pre-trial detention.

The AKP government and Erdoan launched their war against the Glen movement in late 2013 in the aftermath of the eruption of a corruption scandal in which Erdoans close circle was implicated. Erdoan also accuses the movement of masterminding the corruption investigations to topple his government while the movement strongly denies the charge.

(Turkish Minute)

*Video courtesy of The Globe Post.

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