Erdogan vows to hunt down PKK as Turkey buries slain mother, baby
News of the killing of a young mother and infant son has sparked nationwide outrage in Turkey, and its president has renewed promises to eliminate Kurdish separatists and their enablers.
![AFP_16G3C9 A member of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) carries an automatic rifle on a road in the Qandil Mountains, the PKK headquarters in northern Iraq, on June 22, 2018. - Hundreds of Iraqi Kurds marched Friday to protest Turkish strikes against the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) after Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Ankara would press an operation against its bases. (Photo by SAFIN HAMED / AFP) (Photo credit should read SAFIN HAMED/AFP/Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/article_hero_medium/public/almpics/2018/07/GettyImages-981444966.jpg/GettyImages-981444966.jpg?h=a5ae579a&itok=3mPNEi8i)
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