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As US officials visited Turkey and Greece, calling to end Europe energy imports from Russia, Turkey attacked PKK-linked forces in Iraq and Syria.

On December 3rd, a stormy demonstration took place outside the headquarters of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in the Hague. Some 40 to 50 demonstrators, most of them Kurds, were arrested. The demonstrators were demanding

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Did you know that for the past three weeks Turkey has been engaged in a military assault on Iraqi Kurdistan? It’s been brutal. The Turks, who have one of the most powerful military forces on Earth, have used F-16s, F-4 Terminators and other terrifying hi-tech weaponry to pummel Kurdish positions in northern Iraq. Families have fled their homes in terror. Livelihoods have been destroyed. ‘Every day, every night… we are being bombed. Our lands are being destroyed. We cannot grow our crops�...

ANKARA: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Monday that Turkish forces had killed a top Syrian Kurdish commander during an offensive in neighboring Iraq. The Turkish army last month launched a new ground and air offensive against militants from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party dubbed Operation Claw Lightning. Erdogan said the military push had eliminated a Syrian-born “terrorist” who used the nom de guerre Sofi Nurettin. He said Nurettin had served as the PKK’s top military command...

in Dokan, Iraqi Kurdistan SURVIVORS of Saddam Hussein’s brutal campaign against the Iraqi Kurds have urged the United Nations, Britain and the United States to break their silence and prevent Turkey from carrying out another genocide. Speaking to the Morning Star in the city of Dokan, where the Anfal campaign began in February 1988, they accused Western countries of putting oil and other corporate interests before the lives of Kurdish people. “Nato, the UN, the US and Britain are silent whi...

Turkish forces in fresh offensive against PKK in Iraqi Kurdistan The latest Turkish military operation against the PKK in Iraqi Kurdistan comes at a time when Ankara finds itself increasingly under strain, both on the domestic front and in its frosty ties with Washington. Iraqi riot police protect the Turkish Embassy in Baghdad on Feb. 18, 2021 after calls on social media to gather outside the Turkish embassy to protest Turkeys vows to invade the northwestern enclave of Sinjar. There ...

Two soldiers martyred in clash in Gara region as Turkey began second phase of Operation Claw Eagle.

IN Qandil Kurdish mothers are afraid of the night. They go to sleep not knowing if their children are going to wake up alive. The mountainous region that separates Iraq from Turkey is regularly bombed with drone attacks increasing in frequency according to locals, residents and municipal officials. Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan describes Qandil as a “terrorist swamp” that needs to be drained and refuses to acknowledge the reality that the area is home to a civilian population. S...

Inside the Kurdish guerrilla group that helped save the Yazidis - but faces annihilation by Turkey Turkey’s President has launched a military campaign against the PKK, which has mounted a 30-year insurgency for greater Kurdish rights 11 December 2020 • 2:27pm A family collecting herbs walk past the site of a recent airstrike in territory controlled by the PKK in the Qandil mountains Credit: Sam Tarling  It is a perfect outlaws’ refuge, a range of soaring peaks and plunging gorges cut off...