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PKK rebels kill six Turkish soldiers
Ankara :: Turkey | 2 months ago
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Attacks continue despite Turkish government moves to boost Kurdish rights, aimed at addressing decades-old Kurdish complaints of discrimination in an effort to erode support for the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and help combat violence and poverty in...
Tags: Turkey, Dogan Holding, Dogan Yayin Holding, Turkish Finance Ministry, soldiers kill, biggest media, media group, PKK, unpaid tax
Turkey poised to give Kurds more rights
Ankara :: Turkey | 3 months ago
Credibility I see this attack as an attempt to axe, to prevent the democratic opening process," said Erdogan, adding that those initiatives are doomed to fail. The prime minister added that the army's struggle against the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) would continue...
Tags: Russia Turkey, Kurdistan Workers' Party, Russian, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, PKK, Hakkari, kurdish rebels, Turkish Army
Iraq president says PKK must lay down their arms
Baghdad :: Iraq | 3 months ago
Credibility President Jalal Talabani told Reuters he perceived a "new climate" in Turkey toward the rights of its Kurdish minority and that he supported its leaders in their efforts to end the 25-year conflict with the terrorist PKK, whose militants have bases in...
Iraq, Turkey discuss intelligence-sharing on PKK
Baghdad :: Iraq | 3 months ago
Credibility Turkey's foreign minister discusses economic ties and sharing intelligence on the outlawed PKK party with his Iraqi counterpart in Baghdad. After his talks with the Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari on August 11, Ahmet Davutoglu told reporters that...
Tags: Turkey-Iraq, Iraqi, Ahmet Davutoglu, Hoshyar Zebari, Baghdad, foreign minister, minister hoshyar, PKK, share intelligence
‘Kurdish initiative should address psychological needs'
İstanbul :: Turkey | 3 months ago
Credibility Experts have indicated that despite some shortcomings, the government has handled the process successfully so far, and in this respect, the meeting on Wednesday between Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Ahmet Türk, the leader of the pro-Kurdish...
Tags: kurdish initiative, kurdish question, PKK
Turkish PM meets pro-Kurdish politicians
Ankara :: Turkey | 3 months ago
Credibility Erdogan had refused to meet Turk and his party members, criticizing the pro-Kurdish party for not calling the rebels "terrorists." The meeting on Wednesday took place at Erdogan's office at parliament...The government now calls for a national consensus...
Tags: Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, PKK, Turkey, Turkish, Ahmet Turk, DTP, kurdish party, Foreign Ministry, Democratic Society Party
PKK's Germany branch leader imprisoned in Duesseldorf
Berlin :: Germany | 4 months ago
Credibility The court says it has sentenced 48-year-old Huseyin A. to three years and nine months in prison for running the organization's southern sector in Germany from February to June 2007, and Germany-wide operations after that until April 2008. The ruling issued...
'Turkey will have its own model on Kurdish question'
Ankara :: Turkey | 4 months ago
Credibility His remarks Wednesday come ahead of the 25th anniversary of the start of the PKK's separatist campaign of violence, which has killed tens of thousands of people. Atalay said the Kurdish question would be solved through further democratization and broadening...
Tags: Turkey, PKK, kurdish issue, Besir Atalay, military operations
France postpones decision on senior PKK leader until September
Paris :: France | 5 months ago
Credibility Nedim Seven, arrested in Rome in 2007 while trying to depart for Armenia, is a chief member in the terrorist group and in charge of financing the group's activities. Both French and Turkish authorities had arrest warrants issued for him, but Italy chose...
PKK Cease-Fire a Balancing Act for Turkish Government
Baghdad :: Iraq | 5 months ago
Credibility This week the Kurdish rebel group, the PKK, announced it is extending its cease-fire for a month. The PKK has been fighting the Turkish government for independence for 25 years in a conflict that has claimed 40,000 lives. The cease-fire followed statements...
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