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Turkey's indiscriminate strikes on Kurdish villages this summer are adding on to an already disturbing tally of civilian casualties. Turkey claims it is targeting terrorists in the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). But the Crisis Group estimates 600
On 18 April, Turkey announced the beginning of a new cross-border military special operation in Iraqi Kurdistan, Claw Lock (Pençe Kilit). Ankara initially focused all its attention on the Duhok Province of Iraq, where Special Forces of the...
In a critically timed spring offensive, Turkey has hit dozens of targets associated with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party and killed 19 fighters.
Professor Kariane Westrheim says Kurdistan Worker's' Party and the Kurdish liberation movement represent the democratic card in the Middle East emphasizing that the real terrorists here are not the PKK but the state of Turkey with one of the world's largest army’s supplemented by foreign fighters, Jabhat al-Nusra, ISIS, and others.
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