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Better prison conditions The group also said Ocalan’s prison conditions must be eased, adding he

ANKARA-Turkey carried out air strikes against Kurdish militants in northern Iraq overnight, hitting dozens of targets for the second night in a row, the Defence Ministry said on Friday, after a gun attack that killed five people in Ankara. The operation followed a security meeting that President Tayyip Erdogan chaired with key ministers and the armed forces and intelligence agency chiefs in Istanbul on Thursday evening. The Kurdistan Workers Party( PKK), which has waged an insurgency in southeas

Join our Whatsapp channel Turkiye said on Monday that three more of its soldiers had died after being exposed to methane gas during a search operation in caves in northern Iraq, bringing the total toll to eight. The incident comes at a sensitive time with Turkiye in talks to end the conflict with the Kurds after the PKK militant group agreed to end its decades-long armed struggle. The conflict, which began in 1984, has cost more than 40, 000 lives. Advertisements Video Player is loading.... Pla

The opposition party has recently raised its criticism of the government’s economic and political moves, calling for early elections, while Erdogan continues his openly hostile rhetoric against them as well.... The investigation also includes municipal employees who were allegedly hired through DIAYDER references. Minister Suleyman Soylu said they had identified people with terror links among employees and argued the move was combating terror, including in public institutions.... “ It's not po

All the neighbors of Iraq - Turkey, Iran, Syria – declared their opposition to the referendum on the independence of Iraqi Kurdistan, which is scheduled for September 25. There are fears that it can become a precedent for the entire Kurdish population and provoke a chain reaction in these countries

Стремительное наступление поддерживаемых Россией и Ираном правительственных войск на востоке Сирии разрушает надежды американских военных на продвижение вглубь территорий ？Исламского государства？ (террористическая организация, запрещенная на территории РФ — прим. ред.

Kurds do not have an official homeland or country.... Portions of the region are recognized by two countries: Iran, where the province of Kordestan lies; and northern Iraq, site of the autonomous region known as Kurdistan Regional Government( KRG) or Iraqi Kurdistan.... Kurds make up about 10% of the population in Syria, 19% of the population of Turkey, 15-20% of the population of Iraq and are the second largest ethnicity in Iran....