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7/25/2021 10:51:07 AM
Turkey launched Operation Euphrates Shield in 2016 in order to drive away from its border region Islamic State militants and Syrian Kurdish militia forces deemed 'terrorists' by Ankara
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7/10/2021 7:20:31 PM
Kurdish authorities in Syria on Saturday slammed the UN Security Council for failing to reopen an aid crossing to the northeast despite approving deliveries through the frontier with Turkey.
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7/6/2021 4:01:47 PM
In June, IS cells inside Al-Hol "carried out more killings of residents distancing themselves from the extremist ideas of the group", the Kurdish-led SDF said
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7/2/2021 3:24:51 PM
Kurdish authorities hold thousands of suspected jihadist fighters in their jails, as well as tens of thousands of their relatives in camps for the displaced
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6/21/2021 5:27:31 PM
The prosecutor is demanding that the party be dissolved, that it be deprived of treasury funding and that about 450 party members be barred from holding political office for five years
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6/17/2021 4:58:44 PM
Thousands of pro-Kurdish activists, along with lawmakers and the party's former leaders, have been imprisoned. The HDP is also facing renewed legal action seeking its closure
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6/12/2021 9:44:38 PM
It was not immediately clear who was behind the shelling, which came from areas where government troops and Kurdish-led fighters are deployed
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5/25/2021 7:27:17 PM
Iraqis make up nearly half of Al-Hol's total population, according to the United Nations
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5/17/2021 8:28:53 PM
The Turkish army regularly conducts cross-border operations and air raids against PKK bases in northern Iraq.
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5/11/2021 10:07:51 PM
The area has seen occasional fighting between Iranian forces and Kurdish separatists as well as militants linked to the extremist Islamic State group
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4/5/2021 3:17:20 PM
He is being held on terrorism-related charges that he denies. The European Court of Human Rights has said his imprisonment is cover for limiting pluralism and debate, but Turkey has ignored its calls for his immediate release
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3/31/2021 9:29:00 PM
The campaign, which started Sunday, is assisted by the US-led coalition and aimed at curbing the escalating violence and killings inside al-Hol camp
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3/21/2021 6:24:00 PM
The party now faces the risk of being shut down after Turkey's top public prosecutor accused it of links to the Kurdish militants in a filing with the Constitutional Court on Wednesday
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3/21/2021 11:19:40 AM
Omer Faruk Gergerlioglu 'was brought out by force while he was in pyjamas and slippers' by 'nearly 100 police officers', the leftist Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) said in a statement
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3/18/2021 5:02:55 PM
The US State Department said the ban would 'further undermine democracy in Turkey and the European Union said it was 'deeply concerned' since the party's closure 'would violate the rights of millions of voters in Turkey'
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3/17/2021 8:46:00 PM
'We call on all the democratic forces, the social and political opposition, and on our people to join a common fight against this political coup,' the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) said in a statement
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3/17/2021 6:47:00 PM
The move came after a years-long crackdown on the HDP, the third largest party in parliament
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3/15/2021 2:50:59 PM
Turkish intelligence agents have captured a senior figure from a Western-backed Syrian Kurdish militia viewed as terrorists by Ankara, Turkey's state media reported Monday
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2/25/2021 4:56:57 PM
Nine of the HDP deputies were accused in connection with protests triggered by an Islamic State militant attack on the Syrian town of Kobani in 2014. The subsequent protests in Turkey led to the deaths of 37 people
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2/21/2021 1:25:29 PM
Turkish prosecutors on Sunday launched a probe into a pro-Kurdish MP suspected of having travelled to a Kurdish-controlled region of Iraq where 13 Turkish hostages were killed in a failed rescue
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