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Turkey arrests 110 over alleged Kurdish militant ties ahead of election

The operation came less than three weeks before elections that represent the biggest challenge President Tayyip Erdogan has faced since 2003.

APRIL 25, 2023|ByREUTERS

TURKEY’S PRESIDENT Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks to journalists at the G20 summit in Bali, Indonesia, earlier this month.

A KURDISTAN Workers Party (PKK) fighter stands near a security position in Sinjar, Iraq, in 2015.

How the PKK’s strength changed Turkey’s strategy towards the Kurds

Turkey recently targeted a refugee camp in Makhmour, near Erbil, the capital city of the KRI. Erdogan called the camp a threat, as grave as Qandil, where the PKK’s headquarters are located.

JULY 3, 2021|ByFARHANG FARAYDOON NAMDAR

KURDISH PROTESTERS carry flags and a banner with a portrait of jailed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan during a demonstration against Turkey’s military action in northeastern Syria in Zurich, Switzerland, this week

Erdogan says Turkey 'neutralized' PKK official in Iraq camp strike

Ankara would not allow the PKK, which has waged a decades-long insurgency in southeast Turkey, to use Makhmour "as an incubator for terrorism", Erdogan said in a Tweet.

JUNE 6, 2021|ByREUTERS

Kurdish PKK leader tells ‘Post’ of ‘peaceful struggle’ against Turkey

As the commander of an ongoing insurgency, he rarely speaks with journalists.

NOVEMBER 27, 2020|ByHADEEL OUEIS, JONATHAN SPYER

Four Turkish soldiers killed in clashes with Kurdish forces

"Terrorists are under intense fire with the air operation and fire support vehicles in the region," it said.

APRIL 20, 2019

ByREUTERS

YPG is not PKK but Ocalan is leader of both

Continuing to criminalize the Kurdish freedom movement in Turkey and strengthening Turkish authoritarianism serves no one but President Erdogan and his neo-Ottoman, Islamist-nationalist agenda.

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

ByKAMAL CHOMANI