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In Iraqi Kurdistan, civilians count the cost of Turkey’s fight against the PKK
For two weeks, Shahin hasn’t said a word. The six-year-old boy avoids all eye contact, his mouth agape in shock. “Since our village was bombed, he has been traumatised,” explains his father, Xalla Min. “It was terrible. The warplanes struck four times: first three missiles, then two, then two more, and one missile at the […]
PKK Eyes a Future in Iraqi Politics
The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) is making moves through its offsprings to secure a position in Iraq’s politics, especially during the upcoming parliamentary elections. The PKK, originally established to fight for the rights of Kurds in Turkey, is now on the ground in the neighboring Syria and Kurdistan Region where it is widely unwelcome. The […]
HDP organizations lay foundation to recruit women for PKK: report
BY NUR ÖZKAN ERBAYMAR The Pro-PKK Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) organizations lay the groundwork for women to join the terrorist organization, a report said, stressing that while the PKK claims to “liberalize” women, it in fact ignores and even endangers their freedoms and security. The report titled “PKK Terror and Women,” published on International Women’s […]
New cynical record-breaking; The PKK announces of the death of its Iranian recruits 21 months late
The PKK is a specialist at massacres. The victims by this group are mostly Kurds. Wherever the PKK has been present; in Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran; the groups has harmed the Kurds who have been killed and have finally gained nothing but destruction, misery and displacement. What are the achievements of the PKK? Neither […]
The PKK and the PYD: Comrades in Arms, Rivals in Politics?
Although the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and the Democratic Union Party (PYD) are ideologically affiliated, they remain organizationally distinct. Even though it does not pose a direct security threat to Turkey, the PYD’s increasing consolidation of power in northern Syria arguably poses a challenge not only to Ankara but also to the PKK. BACKGROUND: During […]
How Turkey’s government abuses – and uses – Kurdish groups
David Lepeska Despite near-constant change, the resurrection of Turkey’s primary political battles is never far away. A dozen years ago this month, long-frosty relations between the Turkish government and the country’s Kurdish nationalist movement enjoyed an early spring thaw. The pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) won the majority of seats in local elections in the […]
Will Iran support the PKK? Turkish expansion in Syria, Iraq and Azerbaijan will not go unanswered.
BY Hedwig Kuijpers As springtime is near, Turkey is preparing for its next large-scale offensive against its archenemy; the Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK). It already started with its incessant shelling of Ayn-Issa in North-Syria, threatened to invade Sinjar, and the execution of an operation centering around the Gare mountain in Duhok district, Iraqi Kurdistan. But […]
Two more families join anti-PKK sit-in in SE Turkey
Group of families in southeastern Turkey await return of their children abducted, forcibly recruited by terrorists Two more families joined the months-long sit-in protest against the PKK terror group in southeastern Turkey on Friday. Families of children abducted or forcibly recruited by the PKK terror group have been protesting for more than a year in […]
Another crime by PJAK; an 18-month late announcement of an Iranian underage
The PJAK terrorist group, the branch of the PKK for Iran, has always announced the death of its Iranian members late. The PKK-affiliated Firat News Agency (funded by drug trafficking and money laundering), just doing propaganda and publishing the news of PKK deaths, has reported the death of Iranian PKK members for many times, but […]
Former SDF-commander Talal Selo digs up some secrets
In a vast area that extends over more than three Syrian governorates, which are the largest and richest in natural resources, and dubbed Syria’s food basket, as it is rich in wheat and other crops, a group of personalities – non-Syrian as a whole – control the capabilities of this region, by orders that come […]