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1/26/2025 4:06:20 PM
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan called for combined regional efforts to combat outlawed Kurdish fighters in Iraq and neighbouring Syria during a visit to Baghdad on Sunday.
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1/6/2025 8:33:16 PM
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Monday he would order an intervention to prevent any splintering of Syria, a warning aimed particularly at the country's Kurdish forces.
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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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12/22/2024 10:57:35 PM
Turkey’s Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan stated on Sunday that Syria’s territorial integrity is “non-negotiable” and reiterated that there is no room for the PKK/YPG group in the country.
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11/12/2024 9:12:30 PM
The Kurds received support from the Biden administration, writes Karam Said, but what might Trump’s return to the White House imply for the complex, many-sided issue?
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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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9/3/2024 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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8/15/2024 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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1/13/2024 11:55:46 AM
Turkey carried out airstrikes targeting Kurdish militants in neighboring Iraq and Syria on Saturday, the Turkish Defense Ministry said. This comes a day after an attack on a Turkish military base in Iraq killed nine Turkish soldiers.
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10/5/2023 2:15:58 PM
Turkish strikes Thursday on military and infrastructure targets in Kurdish-held northeastern Syria killed at least seven people, a Kurdish official said, after Ankara had threatened raids in retaliation for a bomb attack.
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10/3/2023 11:58:00 AM
Police detained at least 67 people across Turkey on Tuesday in a sweep targeting people with alleged links to Kurdish militants, days after a suicide bomb attack in the Turkish capital.
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10/2/2023 9:53:07 AM
Turkish jets launched air strikes inside Iraqi Kurdistan late Sunday, after a blast earlier the same day injured two police officers near the parliament building in Ankara.
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8/24/2023 12:12:43 PM
Three members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) were killed Thursday in a Turkish drone strike in Iraq's Kurdistan region, authorities said, as Ankara's top diplomat visited the northern region.
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7/29/2023 1:36:56 PM
Four "fighters" from the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) have been killed by a drone strike in northern Iraq, officials in the autonomous Kurdistan region said, blaming the Turkish military.
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5/20/2023 10:55:50 PM
The Iraqi army is preparing to tighten the federal government's grip on a camp housing Turkish Kurdish refugees that Ankara has called an "incubator for terrorism", officials told AFP Saturday.
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4/25/2023 12:23:41 PM
Turkey on Tuesday detained at least 110 pro-Kurdish activists, journalists, and lawyers in raids conducted just three weeks before a knife-edge vote that could extend President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's two-decade rule.
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4/8/2023 11:45:53 AM
Iraqi President Abdel Latif Rashid condemned Turkey on Saturday for bombarding an area near Sulaimaniyah airport in the autonomous Kurdish region, a flashpoint between the two governments.
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