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| Turkey calls Nato talks on IS and PKK | Turkey calls Nato talks on IS and PKK |
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| Turkey has called a special meeting of Nato ambassadors to discuss military operations against the Islamic State (IS) group and PKK Kurdish separatists. | |
| The session is to take place in Brussels on Tuesday. | |
| Turkey launched air attacks against IS militants in Syria and resumed air raids against PKK camps in northern Iraq following recent attacks. | |
| In one attack blamed on IS, 32 people were killed in a suicide bombing near the Syrian border on 20 July. | |
| The PKK killed Turkish police in the wake of the bombing in retaliation for what they saw as Turkey's collaboration with IS. | |
| The raids against Kurdish separatist camps in northern Iraq in effect ended a two-year ceasefire. | |
| Late on Saturday a car bomb attack on a military convoy in south-eastern Turkey killed two soldiers and injured four others, Turkish officials said. | |
| The US has called on both sides to avoid violence, but said Turkey had the right to defend itself again attacks by Kurdish rebels. | |
| The Nato meeting was called under Article 4 of the Washington Treaty which allows members to consult whenever - in the opinion of any of them - the territorial integrity, political independence or security of a member country is threatened. |