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1/29/2013 12:34:56 PM
100 PKK fighters set to disarm, withdraw from Turkish soil as initial step towards ending 28 year long Turkish-Kurdish hostilities
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1/14/2013 4:01:12 PM
The meeting signals Turkey's willingness to negotiate with the Kurdish leader to end a conflict that has killed tens of thousands over three decades
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1/9/2013 11:50:15 AM
Turkish media reports say a government-PKK deal was reached to end a thirty-year period of violence after new round of talks between Ankara and Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan
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1/8/2013 4:33:55 PM
Peace and Democracy Kurdish Party hailed the Turkish government-led talks with jailed Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan as a 'right step' but called for a halt to detentions and military operations against rebels
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1/8/2013 2:13:01 PM
After Kurdish militants open fire from inside Iraq on remote outpost in Turkey, clashes erupt leaving 12 Kurdish militants and one Turkish soldier dead
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1/8/2013 1:59:25 PM
To show support for protests that accuse Shiite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki of marginalization and that threaten his fragile government, Iraqi Sunni Muslim and Kurdish ministers boycotted a cabinet session
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1/6/2013 3:06:25 PM
In bid to end three-decade insurgency, Turkish intelligence agents will continue to talk to Kurdish militant's jailed leader, but general amnesty is ruled out for Kurdish militants
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12/25/2012 1:06:52 PM
A day after speaking with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, international peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi met with three opposition groups
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12/23/2012 2:24:52 PM
Three construction workers and a member of the Kurdish pershmerga security forces were killed in three separate bomb attacks in Iraq
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12/22/2012 11:39:52 AM
Tension between Iraq and Kurdistan raises as Baghdad said it will not pay oil companies operating in the autonomous region as its oil export were below the target
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12/21/2012 11:37:58 AM
Troops raid finance minister's office and home sparking fears Shi'ite PM is targeting Sunni officials, as Kurdish mediating figure President Jalal Talabani leaves for Germany due to ill health
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12/20/2012 8:39:42 PM
As Iraqi politicians wish President Jalal Talabani a quick recovery, talk is already turning to his potential departure; Prime Minister Maliki is more likely expected to gain more political space
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12/18/2012 9:58:17 AM
Fierce battle between Syrian regime forces and rebel fighters in the Yarmuk refugee camp in southern Damascus
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12/16/2012 12:03:32 PM
Two Kurdish security recruits died and two were wounded when a car bomb exploded at an Iraqi Kurdish political party headquarters
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12/5/2012 4:30:41 PM
Militants of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party clashed with Turkish troops in the Amanos mountains in southern Turkey near Syria, leaving 13 Kurdish rebels dead
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11/27/2012 9:07:26 PM
Ankara takes steps towards lifting immunity from Kurdish MPs accused of having links to militant groups
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11/27/2012 6:03:11 PM
Six people killed and 16 wounded in car bombs in Kurdish areas in norther Iraq
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11/26/2012 7:08:03 PM
Iraq's Kurdish and government officials reach a deal aimed at reducing their center-periphery political tensions amid military reinforcements sent to disputed areas by both sides
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11/24/2012 4:32:07 PM
Free Syrian army attacks army positions in Aleppo, while Islamist fighters clashed with Kurdish militias on the border with Turkey
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11/21/2012 2:10:49 PM
Citing the current tenuous relationship between Iraq and the Kurdish forces, Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan accused the Iraqi government of trying to start a civil war
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