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Turkey sees US deal on Syria safe zone as start of purging Kurdish militia: report

Turkey sees its deal with the US to carve out a narrow security zone in northern Syria as just the beginning, two Turkish officials told Bloomberg,...

HDP calls on other parties to raise their voice against removal of elected mayors

Kurdish Peoples’ Democracy Party (HDP) Co-chairperson Pervin Buldan has called on political parties in the Turkish parliament, other than the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and...

Turkish gov’t fires 3 Kurdish mayors, detains hundreds on terrorism charges

Turkey’s Interior Ministry fired three elected mayors from the Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) and detained more than 400 people  on terrorism charges on...

Turkey jails yet another pregnant woman on terrorism charges

A woman who is in the fourth month of her pregnancy and was detained by police during a raid on her house in Diyarbakır’s...

Öcalan calls for new initiative to resolve Turkey’s Kurdish conflict

Jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) Abdullah Öcalan has called for a new initiative to bring a peaceful settlement to the ethnic violence in Turkey’s...

Brother of HDP deputy allegedly behind diplomat killing in northern Iraq

An announcement by the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) said one of the people responsible for the assassination of Turkey’s deputy consul general in Erbil was Mazlum Dağ,...

Turkey launches air attack targeting PKK in Iraqi Kurdistan after diplomat killing

Turkey on Thursday launched an air attack on Iraqi Kurdistan in response to the killing of a Turkish diplomat in the region, the country's defense minister...

Turkey says it killed nearly 3,800 PKK terrorists over 2 years: report

Close to 3,800 Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) terrorists have been killed in some 230,000 counterterrorism operations conducted by Turkey’s security forces in the last two-and-a-half years, according...

European rights court fines Turkey for violating Kurdish politician’s freedom of expression

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has fined Turkey for violating the right to free expression of jailed Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtaş, who was convicted...

Turkey condemns UN for signing agreement with YPG-led group over recruitment of child soldiers

The Turkish Foreign Ministry on Tuesday condemned the United Nations, which had signed an agreement with the Kurdish-militia-led Syrian Defense Forces (SDF) to end the recruitment...

Turkey imposed 369 curfews in Southeast in last 4 years: report

Local Turkish authorities imposed 369 curfews in the southeastern region of the country between Aug. 16, 2015 and July 1, 2019, according to the Turkish Human...

I wasn’t aware Öcalan’s brother had been sought by Turkish authorities: Erdoğan

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has claimed he was unaware that Osman Öcalan, brother of jailed leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) Abdullah Öcalan, had previously...

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