Tag: PKK

While traveling from Pakistan toTurkey on an official visit Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğancalled on militants from the outlawed Kurdistan Party (PKK) to put away their guns.  “A considerable majority of ...

Hundreds of Kurdish prisoners in Turkey have ended a 68-day hunger strike after jailed ex-rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan urged them to do so. The prisoners had been demanding better conditions ...

Turkish President Abdullah Gul has said that Turkey would keep combating terrorism with a great determination. Gul attended a ceremony to commemorate the Great Leader Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the Founder ...

   Turkish media say 17 soldiers have been killed in a helicopter crash in the country’s southeast. Channel 24 says the helicopter crashed in the district of Pervari in Siirt ...

The government only has a few days left to take urgent action to fulfill imprisoned hunger strikers’ demands or the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) could join the action, party ...

Turkey is currently experiencing hard times. The hunger strikes in prisons over the Kurdish problem - which have been ongoing for more than 50 days and have left the strikers ...

Deputy Premier Bulent Arinc said that the right to make defense by using mother tongue would be added to the laws. Deputy Premier & government spokesman Bulent Arinc said that ...

Kurdish rebels set off a car bomb in south-eastern Turkey, killing an 11-year-old child, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said. The bomb, which went off near a wedding ...

Clashes have broken out between riot police and Kurdish protestors in southeast Turkey during a funeral staged for a Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militant killed in a shootout with the ...

One of the most important issues that Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdoğan has raised in his meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin on Oct. 31 was more support against the outlawedKurdistan Workers’ ...