Kurdish Terror Stash Discovered in Turkey: Civil-Military Confusion for U.S. Kurdish Relations5/8/2017 Turkey seizes Kurdish PKK arsenalThe Turkish military announced today that it had seized a major arsenal belonging to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in the country’s southeast, calling it “the biggest blow to the militants’ logistic support in recent years.” Security forces discovered 25 caves in Sirnak province that they described as the PKK’s “main weapons and ammunition storage” inside Turkey. The stash included several hundred automatic rifles and thousands of rounds of ammunition, including grenades and anti-tank rounds. Islamic State hits Peshmerga base in IraqIslamic State militants disguised in military uniforms attacked an Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga military base on Sunday, killing two soldiers and wounding six others, a Kurdish officer said. Two suicide bombers managed to detonate their explosives at the entrance of the K1 base outside Kirkuk, while three others were shot dead.
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