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Young protesters facing prison in Turkey
Hakkari :: Turkey | about 1 year ago
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Six 13- and 14-year-olds should face 23-year prison sentences for allegedly taking part in violent demonstrations in Turkey, a prosecutor says. A Diyarbakır chief public prosecutor's office indictment recommends that the teenagers be punished severely...
PKK issues celebratory message for Obama
İstanbul :: Turkey | about 1 year ago
Credibility The PKK's Murat Karayılan and Zübeyir Aydar said in their message they are not enemies of Iraq or the United States and that Obama should contribute to the finding of a democratic solution to Turkey's Kurdish issue. Internet sites close to the PKK published...
DTP spreads protests
Ankara :: Turkey | about 1 year ago
Credibility Democratic Society Party, or DTP, incited several protests, some of which turned into support rallies for the terrorist Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, as the Prime Minister resumed his tour of southeast Anatolia over the weekend. Hürriyet Daily News...
Tags: kurdistan, DTP, Recep Tayyip Erdo, PKK, Democratic Society Party, Ahmet Türk, prime minister
Turkey split as Kurdish problem escalates
Ankara :: Turkey | about 1 year ago
Credibility Kurds make up one fifth of the Turkish population and opinions on whether the government is doing enough to help them are deeply divided. One in five Turks is Kurdish and their ambitions to live in independent Kurdistan continue to be thwarted. Berfin...
Turkish military shells Iraq border villages
A security source in Dahuk Province declared that the Turkish military has renewed intense shelling on border villages in Kurdistan targeting suspected PKK bases along the border line between Iraq and Turkey. The same source noted that Turkish shelling...
Iraq approves changes in SOFA draft
Baghdad :: Iraq | about 1 year ago
Credibility The Iraqi government says it has approved changes it wants to see in a status of forces agreement governing U.S. troops in Iraq. Still unclear, however, is whether Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki , who has been authorized to present the new demands to...
Tags: Iraq, Kirkuk, PKK, iraqis governing, Dana Perino, Baghdad, security pact, Washington, Turkey, U.S
Hundreds of Iraq Christian families return
Baghdad :: Iraq | about 1 year ago
Credibility Hundreds of Christian families who fled Iraq's northern city of Mosul in fear for their lives this month have returned home in the past few days, a senior Christian lawmaker said on Tuesday. At least 1,500 families fled the ethnically and religiously...
Tags: iraq, kurdistan, Iraqi, Iraq Christian, security pact, northern iraq, Turkey, United States, government spokesman, PKK
Turkish military actions in bloody PKK attack flawless- army general
İstanbul :: Turkey | about 1 year ago
Credibility Central Daylight Time The Turkish military found no flaws in its actions following an investigation into Octobers bloody PKK attack on a military post in the country's southeastern, Turkish TV channels reported citing Land Forces Commander Isik Kosaner.
Tags: PKK, pkk attack
FM spokesman says there is no planned visit to Arbil
Arbil :: Iraq | about 1 year ago
Credibility Özügergin, speaking at a weekly news conference, also said that there was no planned visit to Turkey from the region in question. Responding to a question about developments regarding a tripartite mechanism planned to be established between Turkey, USA...
Tags: kurdistan, Turkey, pkk, Burak Özügergin, Iraq
Babacan sees PKK isolated in Iraq
Baghdad :: Iraq | about 1 year ago
Credibility Albanian capital of Tirana. "It is important that the terrorist organization is completely isolated from the Iraqi groups and that these groups put a clear distance between them and the PKK. We have succeeded in this to a great extent, but there are still...
Tags: iraq, Turkish-Iraqi Business Council, PKK, Barack Obama, northern iraq, Turkey, John McCain, Joe Biden, kurdish rebels, pkk rebels
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