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Erdogan’s election blow will shape Turkey’s foreign policy
Recent local elections delivered a stunning blow to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, marking his most significant electoral defeat to date.
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Illustrated novel about Ocalan released
An illustrated novel depicting the life of Abdullah Ocalan, the leader of the Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK), has been published in three different languages.
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Turkey’s Erdogan to visit Iraq, discuss ambitious agenda
Security cooperation and transport corridor plans are expected to top the agenda of the Turkish president’s visit to Iraq in April, the first of its kind since 2011.
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Turkey Pro-Kurdish candidate fights anti-migrant sentiment in local elections
A pro-Kurdish candidate who lost his arm in prison during a police raid after a hunger strike in 2000 has turned three decades of social activism into a fight against the anti-migrant sentiment dominating local elections in Turkey, Turkish Minute reported, citing Agence France-Presse.
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Will Washington and Ankara Align on the Autonomous Administration?
The U.S. presence in the Syrian Jazira region and along the Euphrates line, coupled with Washington’s support for the Autonomous Administration and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), remains a persistent point of contention between Ankara and Washington.
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Leyla Zana’s “dialogue” message and the PKK’s “good news”
Last weekend, Murat Karayilan, one of the leaders of the outlawed Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK), announced that he would deliver “good news” soon, which drew attention to what he would reveal.
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Turkey vows to expand military op in Iraq till summer
Turkey is looking to expand its cross-border military operations against PKK in Iraq, Defense Minister Yasar Guler said.
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Turkish soldier killed in PKK attack at a northern Iraq military base
A soldier was killed and another injured in an “attempted intrusion” of a Turkish military base in northern Iraq, Turkey’s defence ministry announced Saturday.
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Turkey’s Erdogan visits Egypt as ties are back in full swing after a decade of tensions
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan held talks in Cairo on Wednesday with his Egyptian counterpart in efforts to rally support for growing demands in the region that Israel halt its war on Gaza.
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Turkey’s pro-Kurdish party fields candidates for Istanbul mayor
Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) on Friday named Meral Danis Bestas and Murat Cepni as its co-candidates for mayor of the İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality after the wife of the party’s jailed former leader said she won’t run in the election.
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Erdogan should re-initiate peace process, says Leyla Zana
Veteran Kurdish politician Leyla Zana broke her silence for Gazete Duvar. In an interview, she talked about the end of the peace process, the possibility of a new process, her thoughts on recent politics and her experiences since 2015.
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Turkish aircraft target SDF sites in Qamishli and its countryside
Syrian sources revealed on Tuesday that Turkish warplanes targeted sites belonging to the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the city of Qamishli and its countryside.
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Turkey pro-Kurdish party open to form alliances in local elections
Turkey's opposition People’s Equality and Democracy (DEM) Party co-chair Tuncer Bakirhan stated on Dec. 17 that the party is willing to collaborate in the upcoming local elections with anyone that shares their principles of “democratic compromise” and “politics of emancipation,” during the third extraordinary congress of the party’s Izmir branch.
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Japan removes PKK from the list of banned organizations
Japan's intelligence agency removed the name of the PKK from the list of banned armed organizations.
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HEDEP to change abbreviation following top court’s objection
Turkey Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equity and Democracy Party announced that the party would be changing its acronym HEDEP after the Court of Cassation’s abjection of its “similarity to closed HADEP.” Constitutional Court in 2003 closed the latter on charges of "being the center of illegal activities."
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Turkey’s Recent Escalation With The PKK And YPG Poses Enormous Risk – Analysis*
With rising tensions between Turkey and Kurdish groups in Iraq and Syria, critical energy infrastructure is increasingly at risk of attack.
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Turkey CHP alarms on judicial crisis
In a stirring address at the TBMM (Grand National Assembly of Turkey), Turkey main opposition CHP (Republican People's Party) Group Deputy Chairman Gokhan Gunaydin raised severe concerns about the state of the rule of law in the country.
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Turkish military conducts air strikes on PKK in Kurdistan Region
The Turkish Ministry of Defense confirmed on Saturday that the Turkish army carried out air strikes in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, targeting 15 locations belonging to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). According to the ministry, the strikes resulted in the neutralization of numerous militants.
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Turkey pro-Kurdish party to seek ministry’s permission to meet with Ocalan
A group of lawmakers from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (HEDEP) have announced that they will ask for permission from the Justice Ministry to meet with the jailed leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), the Mezopotamya news agency reported.
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Republic of Turkey: An unfinished republican project / Toros Korkmaz
"In modern Turkey, the republican regime must remove the obstacles to the sovereignty of all and not only of a selected group of people, and the anti-establishment political movements must take a dominant position in society."
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Turkey sends Sweden's NATO membership bill to Parliament
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had been delaying ratification of Sweden’s membership, accusing Stockholm of being too soft on Kurdish militants.
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Turkey pro-Kurdish HEDEP denies secret talks with ruling AKP
Pro-Kurdish HEDEP's Co-Chair Bakirhan denied secret talks with the AKP, emphasizing that they have not engaged in any discussions with the ruling party regarding the upcoming local elections.
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Turkey escalates airstrikes in Syria, but will it cross US, Russia redlines? / Fehim Tastekin
A suicide attack outside of Turkey's national security directorate headquarters has become the latest justification for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s plan to create a 30-kilometer-deep (18 miles) “safe zone” along the country’s borders with Syria and Iraq to keep armed Kurdish groups away.
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Green Left Party announces major changes at upcoming congress
The Green Left Party is poised for a transformative congress on October 15, with plans to change its name, make substantial leadership changes, and address Turkey's political landscape.
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Turkey's struggle for democratization / Mehmet Altan
How a 2004 directive to monitor Pro-EU groups sheds light on the ongoing struggle for democratization?
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Erdogan asks Musk to set up Tesla factory in Turkey
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan invited Elon Musk to build a Tesla factory in Turkey, and discussed potential cooperation on SpaceX’s Starlink and AI technology, during a meeting in the Turkish House in New York.
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Turkey's tricky Syrian dilemma: Erdogan's tough choices ahead
The Foreign Policy writes that reconciliation with Assad seems inevitable amidst mounting pressures both domestically and internationally.
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Defense minister says Turkey won't leave Syria till borders are secure
"I believe the Syrian president will also start acting with more reason," minister Yasar Guler has said.
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Is Turkey serious about joining BRICS?*
In July 2018 Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan surprised Turkey’s Western allies by attending a summit of BRICS, an economic and geopolitical bloc comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, in South Africa’s economic hub of Johannesburg.
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Istanbul governor bans march aimed at calling attention to suppression of Kurdish language
The Istanbul Governor’s Office has banned a march aimed at drawing attention to the suppression of the Kurdish language and Kurds’ longstanding demand for access to education in their mother tongue, the Gazete Duvar news website reported on Monday.