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1/2/2025 7:55:37 PM
Authorities in the Iraqi Kurdish city of Sulaimaniyah have banned four organisations accused of affiliation with the Turkish-blacklisted Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), activists said Thursday, denouncing the move as "political".
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12/28/2024 1:03:19 PM
A delegation from Turkey's main pro-Kurdish DEM party is due on Saturday to visit jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan, who is serving life on a prison island off Istanbul, a party source said.
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12/19/2024 1:45:28 PM
Ankara will push ahead with its military preparations until Kurdish fighters "disarm", a defence ministry source said Thursday, stressing Turkey faces an ongoing threat along its border with northern Syria.
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12/17/2024 10:48:07 PM
The leader of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces on Tuesday proposed a "demilitarized zone" in the northern town of Kobane as fighting with Turkish-backed groups grips northern Syria.
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12/17/2024 6:19:34 PM
Syria's "conflict has not ended yet," even after the departure of former president Bashar al-Assad, the UN's envoy to the country warned Tuesday, highlighting clashes between Turkish-backed and Kurdish groups in the north.
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12/8/2024 5:07:07 PM
The commander of a Kurdish-led force in Syria hailed "historic" moments on Sunday with the fall of the "authoritarian regime" of Bashar al-Assad.
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10/31/2024 1:42:36 PM
Turkish opposition parties called for protests Thursday at what they said was the politically-motivated arrest of an opposition mayor for alleged links to the banned Kurdish PKK militant group.
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10/29/2024 7:34:00 PM
Turkey will continue its military operations in northern Iraq and Syria against Kurdish PKK rebels so as to "eliminate" their threat, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan promised on Tuesday.
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9/17/2024 8:44:59 PM
A social revolution is taking place in Iran two years after the death of Mahsa Amini, a young Iranian-Kurdish woman who died after being arrested for improperly wearing the hijab, writes Manal Lotfy
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9/3/2024 12:38:29 PM
Turkey said on Tuesday it had launched fresh air strikes on what it said were Kurdish militants in the mountains of northern Iraq.
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8/29/2024 2:41:23 PM
The Iraqi military said it downed a Turkish drone over the northern city of Kirkuk on Thursday, as Ankara kept up its operations against Kurdish militants inside Iraq.
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8/15/2024 9:10:09 PM
Turkey said Thursday it had agreed a military cooperation pact with Iraq that will see joint training and command centres against Kurdish separatists, with Baghdad saying it will ban the PKK as a party.
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7/14/2024 6:30:33 PM
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday announced the imminent end of his government's operations against Kurdish PKK fighters in northern Iraq and Syria.
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6/27/2024 10:31:24 PM
Iraqi authorities in Baghdad and the administration in the semi-autonomous northern Iraqi Kurdish region have been arbitrarily detaining and deporting Syrian refugees to their country, a leading international rights group said Thursday.
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5/2/2024 9:02:21 PM
US-backed Kurdish authorities in Syria Thursday denied claims by Amnesty International which accused them of torturing suspected jihadists and their dependents detained in the country's northeast.
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4/26/2024 7:11:08 PM
Ten United Nations experts called Thursday for the release of an Iranian rapper sentenced to death for supporting nationwide protests sparked by the death of the young Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini.
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4/2/2024 4:06:09 PM
A pro-Kurdish candidate who came first in the mayoral race in an eastern Turkish city was stripped of his victory Tuesday by the regional electoral commission, his party said.
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3/17/2024 11:43:17 PM
Around 50 people including an AFP journalist were detained by police on Sunday in Istanbul on the sidelines of the Kurdish New Year celebrations, witnesses said.
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2/5/2024 11:25:04 AM
Five fighters from the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces were killed in an overnight attack on an American base in eastern Syria, a war monitor said Monday.
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1/15/2024 3:41:15 PM
Hundreds of northeast Syrian villages and towns have lost power after Turkish strikes pounded electricity stations and infrastructure, the region's semi-autonomous Kurdish administration said Monday.
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