massacre in Turkey

[BlackPirate]

About 20 people are killed when a group armed with bombs and automatic weapons attacked a wedding party in a village near the town of Mardin, Cihan news agency said.

It was not immediately clear who carried out the attack. Several people were reported to have been wounded.
Government troops have been fighting Kurdish rebels in the area.

Edit.Death toll rises to 41 according to media

[awalanche]

According to latest news 41 killed and 20 wounded from an attack during a weeding celebration

First evidences show that heavy weapons were used and evidences show that it may not be terrorist attack

An extra info, there are many tribal families living centuries in this region. There are also old fueds between these families.

[BlackPirate]

According to latest news 41 killed and 20 wounded from an attack during a weeding celebration

First evidences show that heavy weapons were used and evidences show that it may not be terrorist attack

An extra info, there are many tribal families living centuries in this region. There are also old fueds between these families.

I dont have details about the attack but i suspect its a terrorist attack perhaps by PKK or another group.Perhaps some people want to create a sense of chaos in SE Tourkey like in Iraq

[Mangerman]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8032970.stm

Atleast 16 people killed according to the BBC. I also read that there was 20 people wounded.

[André Masséna]

Interesting find. Let's see how Turkey handles this.

[CrayonVonCaesar]

Here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8032970.stm

[Arto]

Pretty sad. A massacre in a wedding.

I dont have details about the attack but i suspect its a terrorist attack perhaps by PKK or another group.Perhaps some people want to create a sense of chaos in SE Tourkey like in Iraq

Avalanche's comment sounds more reasonable IMO.

[BlackPirate]

i will correct myself it seems there was a clash between families, although the place were the event took place and the high death toll might be misleading.I cant imagine what the hell happened there.40 dead at least in a dispute between families?wtf?

[Arjun]

This is really tragic, 45 people dead .

I dont have details about the attack but i suspect its a terrorist attack perhaps by PKK or another group.Perhaps some people want to create a sense of chaos in SE Tourkey like in Iraq

not really. This seems to be a case of family feud gone wrong. aided and abetted by the paramilitaries the government had created in order to fight the Kurdish rebels.

source: Yahoo news

Citing Ozen, NTV said the motive could be an old feud between rival groups of pro-government village guards who fight alongside Turkish troops against Kurdish rebels in the region. If that is the case, the government would come under renewed pressure to rein in the militiamen, some of whom have been linked to drug smuggling and other crimes.

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Interior Minister Besir Atalay said 45 people were killed and six were wounded, and ruled out involvement of Kurdish rebels.

[PointOfViewGun]

not really. This seems to be a case of family feud gone wrong. aided and abetted by the paramilitaries the government had created in order to fight the Kurdish rebels.

I don't think the they were aided by the paramilitaries they were the first ones to respond to the incident.

[Panzerbear]

dear leader Saddam was right in how to deal with Kurds. and all other ethnicities fighting among each other.

[Hippolord]

Why not juts have obama adopt all of Dear leader saddams children?

And of course treat them the same way! We wouldnt want to traumatize them would we?

[Farnan]

dear leader Saddam was right in how to deal with Kurds. and all other ethnicities fighting among each other.

By massacring hundreds of thousands of women and children???

[Stavroforos]

No matter who is responsible for this, it's ing sick and outragous. If it was those PKK scum, then feel free to bomb the out of them, again.

[b_133]

R.I.P
They report 41 dead in the media here.
Anyway sad.

[s.rwitt]

dear leader Saddam was right in how to deal with Kurds. and all other ethnicities fighting among each other.

By murdering civilians? Sounds like somthing straight out of Stalin's manual....

And you said that? How strange.

[Norge]

Just can't wait till Turkey joins the EU!

[Dr. Oza]

wow... we need to go in there are kill those pkk es

now if only usa didnt give them weapons
(they give it to the northern iraq kurdish soldiers who have ties with pkk and so on...)

[Farnan]

wow... we need to go in there are kill those pkk es

now if only usa didnt give them weapons
(they give it to the northern iraq kurdish soldiers who have ties with pkk and so on...)

No we didn't. We gave YOU intelligence and helped YOU coordinate air strikes against them.

We gave equipment the the KRG which is at war with the PKK and seeking close ties to Turkey.

[PointOfViewGun]

No we didn't. We gave YOU intelligence and helped YOU coordinate air strikes against them.

We gave equipment the the KRG which is at war with the PKK and seeking close ties to Turkey.

They're not really concerned with PKK to be honest.