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The Nation, check out our latest issue. Subscribe to Support Progressive Journalism The Nation is reader supported: Chip in $10 or more to help us continue to write about the issues that matter. Sign up for our Wine Club today. Did you know you can support The Nation by drinking wine? On April 20, the State Department renewed multimillion-dollar bounties on three senior leaders of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK): Cemil Bayık, Duran Kalkan, and Murat Karayılan. Bayık and Karayılan are founding members of the PKK and Kalkan is a senior commander. The Kurdish freedom moveme...

Maximum Pressure: Turkey’s Anti-PKK Counter-Terrorism Campaigns in Northern Iraq Publication: Terrorism Monitor Volume: 19 Issue: 9 (source: dailysabah.com) In late April, the Turkish military launched a large-scale cross-border counter-terrorism campaign into northern Iraq, targeting the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and its network. The push into northern Iraq followed two main axes: Operation Claw-Lightning and Operation Claw-Thunderbolt (Pençe-Şimşek and Pençe-Yıldırım). Thus far, the counter-terrorism campaign has focused on disrupting the PKK’s logistical infrastructure a...

Has Washington Lured Erdogan into a Bear Trap? Published: May 3, 2021 After failing to block Turkey’s purchase of the advanced S-400 Russian air defense system, Washington diplomacy in recent months appeared to have managed to “flip” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to support of US interests in several critical countries from Libya to Armenia to Ukraine, even Afghanistan. With the Turkish economy on the brink of catastrophe as the Lira plunges, it looks more and more like cynical strategists in Washington could have merely lured the wily Erdogan into a deadly bear trap . Turkish ...

KURDISH guerrilla fighters have called for a wave of resistance to the Turkish invasion of the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region of Iraq, urging young people to organise uprisings in towns and cities. “War must spread everywhere, it should not be limited to the mountains. Everyone must play his or her part. Effective actions must take place against the enemy,” Botan Agir told the ANF news agency today. He said that Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) guerillas would be “shields against the enemy forces in the mountains,” vowing that they would fight to their “last drop of blood against the...

TURKEY’S invasion of the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region of Iraq is where its “occupation will be broken and the beginning of lasting freedom will take place,” the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) insisted today. The Kurdish liberation group predicted the Turkish army’s inevitable defeat after Ankara launched its latest military offensive in the mountainous province of Duhok on April 23. “The fascist and genocidal enemy can do whatever it wants,” a statement said. “It will not save it from suffering defeat and ending up in the dustbin of history in the face of the guerilla-led rev...