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Turkey-backed Kurds clash with PKK branch in N Iraq
Mar 03, 2017 13:23Turkey-backed Kurdish fighters engage in deadly clashes with militants affiliated with the anti-Ankara Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar.
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Turkey arrests 26 following car bomb blamed on PKK militants
Feb 18, 2017 18:48Turkish security forces have arrested at least 26 people in connection with the recent car bomb attack in the country’s Kurdish-majority province of Sanliurfa, which claimed the lives of two civilians and left more than a dozen others injured.
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Scores killed in Turkish airstrikes in north Syria
Feb 02, 2017 14:03At least 51 people have been killed in Turkish airstrikes in northern Syria where Ankara has deployed forces and occupied land with the help of terrorists.
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Turkey detains pro-Kurdish party spokesman amid post-coup purge
Jan 29, 2017 13:47Turkish police have arrested the spokesman of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) as part of the government’s crackdown on the pro-Kurdish opposition party launched following last year’s failed military coup.
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Turkish aerial attacks kill nearly 60 PKK militants in northern Iraq
Jan 27, 2017 19:20Nearly five dozen members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) have been killed when Turkish military aircraft carried out a string of aerial attacks against the militants’ positions in Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region.
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Iran condemns deadly twin blasts in Turkey’s Istanbul
Dec 11, 2016 12:10Iran has strongly condemned the double explosions which claimed nearly 40 lives in the Turkish city of Istanbul, calling for a decisive global response to the growing wave of terrorism and extremism.
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About 20 PKK members killed as military foils attack on Turkish army base
Dec 03, 2016 15:52Nearly two dozen members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militant group have been killed after Turkish military forces thwarted their assault on an army base in the country’s southeastern province of Hakkari.
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Erdogan calls for NATO, EU support against PKK militants
Nov 21, 2016 17:38Turkey has called on NATO member states and the European Union (EU) to increase support for Ankara against militants of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
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Turkey criticizes EU 'double standards' vis-à-vis PKK militants
Nov 07, 2016 20:35A high-ranking Turkish official has directed strident criticism at the European Union over what he described as the bloc’s double standards towards members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
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Bomb attack kills 2 police officers in eastern Turkey
Oct 23, 2016 16:03Two police officers have been killed and at least 19 other people injured in a bomb attack blamed on the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in Turkey’s eastern province of Bingol.