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Former FM says Turkey must reconsider approach with PKK
Former Turkish Foreign Minister Yasar Yakis said that the failed hostage rescue operation in Iraq earlier this month should push Ankara to reconsider its strategy against the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).
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Turkey’s pro-Kurdish party under pressure as calls increase for its closure / Diego Cupolo
The pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party faces renewed pressure in Turkey amid rising calls for its closure and recent court decisions that could see one of its lawmakers removed from parliament.
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Biden’s Syria policy / Paul Iddon
After a month in office, the Biden administration doesn’t appear to have a Syria policy.
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Erdogan's new verbal threat against Kurds was a message to the US: politician
A Syrian Kurdish politician said that the US strategy was to create a balance between the Kurds and the Kurdish enemies in the region, and the recent remarks by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan against the Syrian Kurds intended to declare that the US should not pay too much attention to the Kurds.
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Turkey to lobby Biden over F-35 jets - report
Turkey has hired an international law firm to help it win back its spot in the US-led F-35 fighter jet program, state media reported on Friday, February 19.
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Bloodshed at Gara and Erdogan government's success / Fehim Tastekin
Turkey's Operation Eagle Claw, which intended to free the officers held captive by the PKK, ended in the death of 13 Turkish nationals and no evidence of geographic gains. However, the operation was still labeled “a success” by Erdogan's government. Unfortunately, there is no legal mechanism, no political pressure, and no media power that can hold the Turkish government accountable for its actions.
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Blinken walks back State Department ambiguity over Turkish hostages killed in Iraq / Amberin Zaman
After an earlier statement suggesting Washington didn't necessarily buy Ankara's narrative on the killings, the State Department today said that "PKK terrorists bear responsibility."
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Erdogan vows to expand operations into Iraqi Kurdistan
Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed on February 16 to expand cross-border operations against the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants, based in Iraqi Kurdistan, following the killing of 13 Turkish citizens in the region.
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CHP leader questions Erdogan over death of 13 soldiers in northern Iraq
Turkey’s main opposition leader on Tuesday questioned President Recep Tayyip Erdogan over the military operation into northern Iraq’s Gara region and the killing of 13 Turkish citizens over the weekend, Diken news website reported.
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Turkey uses hostage killings to target pro-Kurdish groups / Andrew Wilks
The killings of 13 Turkish hostages in northern Iraq have led Ankara to increase efforts to link Kurdish militants to the domestic opposition and criticize the West over its approach to terrorism.
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Turkey summons U.S. envoy over Washington's supporting PKK after hostage killings
Turkey's Foreign Ministry on Monday, February 15, summoned U.S. Ambassador David Satterfield after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan criticized Washington for supplying weapons to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).
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Turkey detains hundreds over death of 13 personnel in Iraq
Turkey announced the detention of 718 people on Monday, February 15, it accuses of being part of a Kurdish militant group it says executed 13 Turks in northern Iraq.
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Turkish official hints at possible S-400 missile compromise with US / Diego Cupolo
Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said Tuesday that Ankara might be willing to "find a solution" for its Russian-made S-400 missile acquisition if Washington reevaluates its cooperation with Kurdish forces in Syria.
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Over 50 U.S. Senate urges Biden to end Erdogan attack on Kurds, opposition
54 U.S senators signed a letter calling on President Joe Biden to press the Turkish government under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to stop his attacks on Kurds and the opposition.
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Erdogan's pan-Turkism threatening regional stability, says analyst
Turkey is looking to exploit its alliance with Azerbaijan to strengthen its foothold in the region as part of a neo-Ottoman strategy that merges the Turkic states of Central Asia into an uninterrupted logistics space with common armed forces, Libyan journalist Alaeddin Saleh wrote on Saturday.
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A tale of four palaces / Robert Ellis
From time immemorial rulers have put up monuments as reminders of their greatness.
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Columnist warns constitutional changes may give Erdogan power to send laws to parliament
Changes to the Turkish constitution signaled by Recep Tayyip Erdogan may include the authority for the president to submit draft bills to parliament, Hurriyet columnist Nuray Babacan wrote on Wednesday, February 3.
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Kurdish Language Platform asks Erdogan to officially recognize Kurdish language
The Kurdish Language Platform wrote a letter to Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, calling for the official use of the Kurdish language.
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Only one in power can resolve Turkey Kurdish question, expert tells KurdPress
Only one person at the head of the Turkish government can solve the Kurdish problem, and now Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and to some extent Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) jailed Leader, Abdullah Ocalan, can put an end to the problem in Turkey, a researcher at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs told KurdPress in an interview.
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Turkey fears the worst as Biden team takes charge / Yasir Yakis
The first signs of a gloomy picture between Turkey and the US came from a key person in the new Biden administration last week. Secretary of State nominee Antony Blinken on Tuesday said of Turkey: “The idea that a strategic — so-called strategic — partner of ours would actually be in line with one of our biggest strategic competitors in Russia is not acceptable.” He did not stop there. During his Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearing, he said that, after assessing the impact of the existing sanctions on Turkey, Washington has to determine whether more pressure is needed.
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Survey says less than 35 pct support presidential system in Turkey
Less than 35 percent of Turkey want the executive presidential system, a five-percentage point decline from this summer, according to a December survey by Ankara-based pollster Metropoll.
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Does Russia really fear Turkey’s military power? / Paul Iddon
A Russian writer recently made a bold claim, namely that Russia sought a diplomatic solution to the recent round of fighting between Azerbaijan and Armenia because it recognized that it is militarily weak compared to Turkey. Is his assessment accurate?
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Turkey's scapegoating of McGurk rooted in revisionism / Amberin Zaman
National Security Council coordinator for the Middle East and North Africa Brett McGurk has worked closely with the Turks for many years on a range of knotty issues, and the growls from Ankara suggest that Turkey continues to pin US policies that it doesn’t like on "rogue" individuals.
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European lawmakers call for immediate, unconditional release of Selahattin Demirtas
Members of the European Parliament urged Ankara for the immediate and unconditional release of imprisoned Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtas, former leader of the opposition pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), in accordance with rulings by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) decisions.
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Erdogan will soon be 'eliminated' by military elements: Davutoglu
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is under putschist military "tutelage’’ and will soon be "eliminated’’ by the faction that controls him, opposition Future Party leader Ahmet Davutoglu said on Sunday, January 17.
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Turkey's nationalists threaten AKP alliance with calls to ban pro-Kurdish party / Amberin Zaman
While claiming loyalty to the ruling party, Turkish nationalist leader Devlet Bahceli is squeezing the president by demanding the outright banning of the pro-Kurdish HDP.
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Turkey Kurdish party leader doubts peace talks could resume soon
The secretary general of Turkey Kurdistan Socialist Party (KSP) expressed his doubt that the halted Kurdish peace process would restart in Turkey in a near future.
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A list of everyone President Erdogan thinks are terrorists
In Turkey it’s not very difficult to be labelled a terrorist by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan or other members of the AKP government. You can be given this honor by signing petitions, protesting, being Kurdish, being a journalist, or even being an abstract financial force like inflation. Students are the latest group that President Erdogan has accused of terrorism, so here’s a non-exhaustive list of all the times he has called someone or something a terrorist.
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Waiting for Joe*
U.S. President-elect Joe Biden faces a formidable task: he must try to bring together a divided society, while at the same time repairing the damage done by his predecessor abroad.
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Erdogan government ‘serious threat’ to EU: German Kurdish MP
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is a serious threat to the stability of the European Union and the wider region, German Kurdish lawmaker Helin Evrim Sommer told Ahval.