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Turkish prosecutors sought charges Tuesday against five Kurdish rebels who surrendered in a peace gesture, raising questions about whether thousands of other guerrillas can be persuaded to end their decades-long fight. Amnesty for fighters and more rights...
Tags: PKK Rebels Surrender, Turkey, kurdish rebels, Kurdistan Workers Party, Iraq
Turkey on Tuesday urged Iraq and the United States for “concrete results” on the ground in efforts to curb separatist Kurdish rebels taking refuge in northern Iraq. “We have more expectations. We expect concrete results,” Interior Minister Besir Atalay...
Tags: Iraqi, Turkey, Leyla Zana, Besir Atalay, United States, Kurdistan Workers Party, Ankara, minister besir, interior minister, Kurdistan Workers' Party
The soldiers died late Wednesday when their vehicle was caught in the blast of a landmine believed to have been planted by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) separatists, said Hakkari provincial governor Muammer Turker. Turker, however, did not...
Tags: Iraqi, PKK, Turkey, N. Iraq, Kurdistan Workers' Party, Hakkari, northern iraq, hakkari provinces, Kurdistan Workers Party, soldiers died
Turkish air strikes against suspected Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) bases in northern Iraq last week killed 10 suspected militants, the state-run Anatolian news agency said Wednesday. The strikes in Iraq's Zap and Avasin-Basyan regions also destroyed...
Tags: Iraq, Kurdistan Workers Party
Kurdish guerrillas are no longer able to operate freely in northern Iraq and are riven by internal conflict, the head of Turkey's powerful armed forces said on Tuesday. The Turkish military conducted a major incursion last year against Kurdistan Workers...
Tags: Turkey, DTP, Kurdish Democratic Society Party, Kurdistan Workers Party, worker party, kurdish rebels, kurdish party, Iraqi, PKK, Barzani
Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem arrived in Baghdad Wednesday for two days of talks officials said were aimed at boosting bilateral relations...Iraqi government officials said previously they were interested in exploring cooperative ventures with...
Tags: Iraqi Foreign Ministry, Turkey, Baghdad, prime minister, Nechirvan Barzani, PKK, president abdullah, Kurdistan Workers Party, gul urged, Abdullah Gül
Tonight's game will kick off at 19.00 hours (Turkish local time) and take place at the Arena Stadium. Motor vehicles traffic continues to be a major problem in Turkey. In the past 10 years, 1,032,000 Turkish drivers lost their driver's licenses due to...
Tags: Turkey, Turkish-Iraqi, Kurdistan Workers Party, northern iraq, DTP, Kurdistan Workers’ Party, AK Party, world water
The Turkish military said in a statement on Tuesday that its warplanes had attacked Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) strongholds in the Qandil mountains of northern Iraq. Turkish officials did not mention any casualty figures for the Kurdish separatist...
Tags: iraq, kurdistan, Iraq Dilemma, PKK, soldiers, northern iraq, Turkey, returned safely, Kurdistan Workers Party, Turkish
The air strike in Iraq's Qandil Mountains started at 0900 GMT on Friday and continued for a few hours, Turkish military sources said on condition of anonymity. The Kurdish insurgents have confirmed that four people died in the offensive, which was the...
Tags: iraq, kurdistan, Iraqi, Aswat al-Iraq, Kurdistan Workers' Party, Kurdistan Workers Party, Baghdad, Turkish, PKK, kurdish rebels
Another soldier died when a helicopter carrying reinforcements to the scene crashed because of a technical failure and 15 soldiers were wounded, it said...Turkey has staged cross-border raids into northern Iraq recently in pursuit of the rebels. They...
Tags: soldiers, turkey, kurdistan, Iraq-Turkey, iraq, Kurdistan Workers' Party, Kurdistan Workers Party, soldiers killed, Are Taraf, legal action