Eight killed in Turkish air strikes on Kurdish-held zone in Syria
At least eight people have been killed in Turkish drone strikes on Thursday on the Kurdish-held zone of northeast Syria, a war monitor and a local security source said, following ...
Turkey arrests 145 people over suspected links to Kurdish militants
Turkish police detained about 145 people across the country overnight suspected of links to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), state media reported on Tuesday, two days after a bomb attack ...
After Ankara bombing, Turkey hits back in Iraq and at home
Turkey said it unleashed air strikes on militant targets in northern Iraq and detained suspects in Istanbul overnight, hours after Kurdish militants said they orchestrated the first bomb attack in ...
Turkey says it wants more extraditions from Sweden
Sweden’s extradition to Turkey last week of a Kurdish man with alleged terrorism links is a “good start”, but Stockholm needs to do more before Ankara can approve its ...
Erdogan denies allegations of Turkish army using chemical weapons
President Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey’s armed forces have never used chemical weapons and they abide by international law, saying legal action would be taken against those who have made ...
Kurds protest over PKK being called a terrorist organisation at Nato summit
Members of the Theofilos Kurdistan cultural centre marched on Thursday to protest after the Kurdish Workers’ Party PKK was referred to as a terrorist organisation during the Nato summit in ...
Top prosecutor files case to close Turkey’s third biggest party, US and EU condemn move
A top Turkish prosecutor filed a case with the constitutional court on Wednesday demanding the closure of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), in the culmination of a years-long clampdown ...