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Ocalan posturing on PKK reconciliation
Ankara :: Turkey | about 1 month ago
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The imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party is making a political move to sideline his rivals with so-called peace groups, a former rebel leader said. Abdullah Ocalan , the leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, called on his members...
Tags: PKK, Turkey, Turkish Troops Kill, Kurdistan Workers' Party, eastern turkey, outlawed kurdistan
World's Tallest Man Visits London - For Love
London :: United Kingdom | 2 months ago
Credibility Women used to run scared from the world's tallest man, Sultan Kosen, but now he is hoping his new-found fame will help bring him love for the first time...The 27-year-old, who is visiting London , said: "The first thing I want to do is have a car that...
Tags: tallest man, Turkey, Sultan Kosen, Guinness World Records, London, Mr Kosen, eastern turkey, man walk, turk crowned, crowned world, United Kingdom
Turkey: Army rejects push for Armenian apology
İstanbul :: Turkey | 11 months ago
Credibility The Turkish army on Friday rejected a recent call by intellectuals and civil rights activists for a public apology to Armenians for the massacre committed during the Ottoman Empire in 1915. "We don't think this is right. It is wrong and will create harmful...
Turkish intellectuals apologise for Armenian genocide
Ankara :: Turkey | 11 months ago
Credibility More than 13,000 people, mostly Turks, have signed an online petition initiated by a group of Turkish intellectuals, who issued an apology on the Internet for the World War I massacres of Armenians by the Ottoman army. Hundreds of thousands of Armenians...
Tags: Eastern Turkey
17 Iranians die in Turkey bus accident
İstanbul :: Turkey | about 1 year ago
Credibility Iranian - Accident At least 17 Iranian Armenian tourists died and 27 wounded when their bus fell to the bottom of a deep ravine in Eastern Turkey. A provincial official noted that they were a group of tourists who had recently visited the Van city, East...
Tags: East of Turkey, Eastern Turkey, Mehmet Çetin, Iranian, turkey bus, bus crash
4 Turkish soldiers killed in Kurd ambush
İstanbul :: Turkey | about 1 year ago
Credibility Turkish state-run media say a Kurdish rebels have killed four Turkish soldiers. Two rebels were killed in the ensuing clash in southeastern Turkey. Anatolia news agency says three other soldiers were wounded in the ambush early Sunday on a military post...
Tags: soldiers, PKK, kurdistan, Turkey, Bingol Province, eastern turkey, kurdish workers, pkk attack, pkk militants, security forces
Blaze on BTC oil pipeline extinguished
Erzincan :: Turkey | about 1 year ago
Credibility As soon as the cooling process ends, we will begin assessing the damage and start repairs," a source, who declined to be named, said on Monday. The BTC pipeline explosion took place late Tuesday in a pump at a section near the eastern town of Refahiye,...
Tags: kurdistan, Erzincan, Turkey, military vehicle, Kemah district, erzincan province, eastern turkey, PKK, roadside bombs, soldiers killing
German climbers held by Kurdish rebels freed
Ankara :: Turkey | about 1 year ago
Credibility Three German climbers kidnapped earlier this month by Kurdish rebels in eastern Turkey were freed Sunday, the Turkish foreign ministry announced. "(Turkish) Foreign Minister Ali Babacan called his opposite number in Germany, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, to...
Tags: Turkey, kurdish rebels, eastern turkey, germans tourist, foreign minister, germans hostages, PKK, climbing expedition, Ankara, Frank-Walter Steinmeier
4 killed by assailants in Turkish village
Ankara :: Turkey | about 1 year ago
Credibility Assailants rounded up people in a small village in southeast Turkey and shot and killed at least four of them on Saturday, the regional governor said. Seven other people were injured in the attack in the village in the southeastern province of Bingol.
Tags: Turkey, PKK, Bingol State Hospital, Anatolia news agency, security forces, eastern turkey, southeastern turkey, official anatolia, kurdish workers, rebels killing
Five dead as Turkey battles PKK
Berlin :: Germany | about 1 year ago
Credibility K Two Turkish soldiers and three Kurdish rebels have died in clashes in south-eastern Turkey, near the border with Iraq, security officials say. The fighting took place on Sunday during an operation against the banned Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in...
Tags: kurdistan, Turkey, kurdish rebels, PKK, eastern turkey, turkey halts, halts military, military operations, Mount Ararat, pkk rebels
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