PKK/KONGRA-GEL Archive

  • Ari Katz Turkey is a predominantly Sunni Muslim, ethnically Turkish country with a Kurdish minority. Its role in several ongoing geopolitical sagas, its increasingly public Islamic conservatism, and its newly...

    Turkey: Modern Assertiveness in a Globalized World

    Ari Katz Turkey is a predominantly Sunni Muslim, ethnically Turkish country with a Kurdish minority. Its role in several ongoing geopolitical sagas, its increasingly public Islamic conservatism, and its newly...

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  • Turkey Is Drawn into Iraqi Affairs Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 9 Issue: 84 May 3, 2012 By: Saban Kardas The developments in Iraqi domestic politics, coupled with their regional...

    Turkey Is Drawn into Iraqi Affairs

    Turkey Is Drawn into Iraqi Affairs Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 9 Issue: 84 May 3, 2012 By: Saban Kardas The developments in Iraqi domestic politics, coupled with their regional...

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  • Flooding out terror? Turkey’s Ilisu dam project Editor’s Note: Soner Cagaptay is a senior fellow and Altay Sedat Otun is a research intern at the Washington Institute for Near East...

    Flooding out terror? Turkey’s Ilisu dam project

    Flooding out terror? Turkey’s Ilisu dam project Editor’s Note: Soner Cagaptay is a senior fellow and Altay Sedat Otun is a research intern at the Washington Institute for Near East...

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  • Social media has been a boon for democratization forces around the world, most notably in the Middle East and North Africa. But a recent tragedy in Turkey helps highlights the...

    Turkey: Twitter Cuts Two Ways

    Social media has been a boon for democratization forces around the world, most notably in the Middle East and North Africa. But a recent tragedy in Turkey helps highlights the...

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  • By Alakbar Raufoglu for SES Türkiye — ekurd.net The PKK demanded Turkey’s recognition of the Kurds’ identity in its constitution and of their language as a native language along with...

    Turkey to offer 850,000 Euros rewards for PKK leadership

    By Alakbar Raufoglu for SES Türkiye — ekurd.net The PKK demanded Turkey’s recognition of the Kurds’ identity in its constitution and of their language as a native language along with...

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  • People carry the coffins of victims as thousands of mourners gathered in Gulyazi village at the border with Iraq, southeast Turkey, Friday, Dec. 30, 2011 for the funerals of 35...

    Turkish Jets Hit Suspected Rebel Targets in Iraq

    People carry the coffins of victims as thousands of mourners gathered in Gulyazi village at the border with Iraq, southeast Turkey, Friday, Dec. 30, 2011 for the funerals of 35...

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  • Written by: Julian Clover Eutelsat has suspended satellite carriage of Roj TV after a Copenhagen court ruled the channel to be a vehicle of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). The PKK...

    Eutelsat drops Kurdish Roj TV

    Written by: Julian Clover Eutelsat has suspended satellite carriage of Roj TV after a Copenhagen court ruled the channel to be a vehicle of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). The PKK...

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  • By JPOST.COM STAFF 01/17/2012 21:02 Heron UAVs helped PKK set up bases in Hatay province, Turkish intelligence report says according to ‘Today’s Zaman’ Israeli unmanned aerial vehicles seen hovering over...

    ‘Israeli drones aiding PKK activities in Turkey’

    By JPOST.COM STAFF 01/17/2012 21:02 Heron UAVs helped PKK set up bases in Hatay province, Turkish intelligence report says according to ‘Today’s Zaman’ Israeli unmanned aerial vehicles seen hovering over...

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  • When the Centre for Turkey Studies and Development (CTSD) invited two leading journalists/writers from Turkey over to London to speak at a meeting in the House of Commons this evening...

    Democratisation and Political Change in Turkey

    When the Centre for Turkey Studies and Development (CTSD) invited two leading journalists/writers from Turkey over to London to speak at a meeting in the House of Commons this evening...

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  • COPENHAGEN, Jan 10 (Reuters) – A Danish court imposed a small fine on the owners of a Kurdish television station on Tuesday but did not shut it down, despite finding...

    Turkey angry after Danish court leaves Kurd TV on air

    COPENHAGEN, Jan 10 (Reuters) – A Danish court imposed a small fine on the owners of a Kurdish television station on Tuesday but did not shut it down, despite finding...

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  • A U.S. Predator drone had reportedly fired the first bomb in an airstrike that killed 35 Kurdish civilians in southeastern Turkey last month. In its main headline on Sunday, Turkish...

    ‘U.S. drone targeted civilians in Turkey’

    A U.S. Predator drone had reportedly fired the first bomb in an airstrike that killed 35 Kurdish civilians in southeastern Turkey last month. In its main headline on Sunday, Turkish...

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  • Posted on January 5th, 2012 by Samuel Krech Today in our class discussion we talked about the massacre of the Armenian population in Turkey during the first World War along...

    Turkey: At the Crossroads of East, West, North and South

    Posted on January 5th, 2012 by Samuel Krech Today in our class discussion we talked about the massacre of the Armenian population in Turkey during the first World War along...

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  • TAHA ÖZHAN Saturday,January 7 2012, Your time is 14:44:37 New Turkey, the PKK and jet lag Recently, Turkey has made considerable efforts to overcome its historical jet lag. On one...

    TAHA ÖZHAN – New Turkey, the PKK and jet lag

    TAHA ÖZHAN Saturday,January 7 2012, Your time is 14:44:37 New Turkey, the PKK and jet lag Recently, Turkey has made considerable efforts to overcome its historical jet lag. On one...

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  • Turkey uses Israeli-made Heron unmanned aerial vehicles in its military operation against Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) terrorists. (File photo) A senior Turkish politician has called on the government for an...

    ‘Turkey must end US, Israel intel. coop’

    Turkey uses Israeli-made Heron unmanned aerial vehicles in its military operation against Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) terrorists. (File photo) A senior Turkish politician has called on the government for an...

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  • ANKARA – Hürriyet Daily News Ümit Enginsoy Turkey plans to boosts fight against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party by acquiring several items of weapons and vehicles worth billions of US...

    Turkey awaits key anti-PKK weapons

    ANKARA – Hürriyet Daily News Ümit Enginsoy Turkey plans to boosts fight against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party by acquiring several items of weapons and vehicles worth billions of US...

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  • Kurds in Turkey: arrests and violence threaten to radicalise a generation Constanze Letsch reports on the Turkish crackdown on the country’s Kurds and the cultural oppression that goes with it Constanze...

    arrests and violence threaten to radicalise a generation

    Kurds in Turkey: arrests and violence threaten to radicalise a generation Constanze Letsch reports on the Turkish crackdown on the country’s Kurds and the cultural oppression that goes with it Constanze...

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  • A welcome spotlight shone on Turkey’s Kurdish war Maya Jaggi guardian.co.uk, Friday 16 December 2011 22.55 GMT Kurdistan Workers Party members silhouetted on a hillside in southeast Turkey Kurdish insurgents...

    The Lost Word by Oya Baydar

    A welcome spotlight shone on Turkey’s Kurdish war Maya Jaggi guardian.co.uk, Friday 16 December 2011 22.55 GMT Kurdistan Workers Party members silhouetted on a hillside in southeast Turkey Kurdish insurgents...

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  • Turkey denies use of chemical weapons by Ted Purlain on December 12, 2011 The Turkish military recently denied that it was using chemical weapons to fight against the rebel Kurdistan...

    Turkey denies use of chemical weapons

    Turkey denies use of chemical weapons by Ted Purlain on December 12, 2011 The Turkish military recently denied that it was using chemical weapons to fight against the rebel Kurdistan...

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  • Turkey claims to be a successful democracy, but for thousands of political protesters, it is anything but Ayca Çubukçu guardian.co.uk Riot police and Kurdish demonstrators. Turkish riot police clash with...

    Turkey: the ‘progressive’ land of repression

    Turkey claims to be a successful democracy, but for thousands of political protesters, it is anything but Ayca Çubukçu guardian.co.uk Riot police and Kurdish demonstrators. Turkish riot police clash with...

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  • COPENHAGEN – Anatolia News Agency This file photo shows front page of Danish newspaper Berlingske Tidende publishing a report on ROJ TV showing the relations between the TV and the...

    ROJ TV promotes PKK, says Danish prosecutor

    COPENHAGEN – Anatolia News Agency This file photo shows front page of Danish newspaper Berlingske Tidende publishing a report on ROJ TV showing the relations between the TV and the...

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