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‘Turkish police forces in Istanbul have clashed with demonstrators protesting against curfews in the country’s Kurdish-majority southeast. On Sunday, hundreds of activists organized a protest rally in Istanbul’s Tarlabasi district, where a number of arrests were made as the demonstrators were showing solidarity with the Kurdish people. Some of the demonstrators reportedly threw firebombs at […]

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‘Erdoğan began his ascent to power as a social reformer in opposition to the power elite; he was a rabble-rouser for popular Islam and social welfare. Once he takes political power he enriches his family and the business elite and purges adversaries and rivals. With political power and economic connections, he amasses personal wealth through […]

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‘Leandra Bernstein — On Wednesday, the House Foreign Affairs Committee passed a bill to directly arm and equip the Kurdish Peshmerga. The measure intends to avoid delays in the delivery of defense articles to the Kurds, reportedly caused by the Iraqi central government bureaucracy. “If your sense is you would like Iraq to be one […]

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‘A court in Turkey has sentenced a lawmaker from the country’s left-wing and pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) to more than six years in prison over alleged affiliation to the “terrorist” Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). On Friday, the 2nd High Penal Court in Turkey’s eastern province of Van handed down a six-year-and-three-month jail term to […]

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‘Armored vehicles patrolling the streets, reports of starvation looming and civilians killed – a small pro-Kurdish town of Silvan has become a hotspot after the Turkish military launched an operation on November 3. The curfew has entered its second week. The city neighborhoods of Tekel, Mescit and Konak have been mostly hit by the shelling […]

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‘Clashes have erupted between Turkish police and suspected militants of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in the country’s troubled southeast. The latest fighting erupted outside the headquarters of the pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP) in the main Kurdish city of Diyarbakir on Sunday evening. AFP said gunshots were heard across the violence-hit region. However, it […]

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‘A little over a week ago in “Full Metal Retard: US Launches ‘Performance-Based’ Ammo Paradrop Program For Make-Believe ‘Syrian Arabs’” we outlined what is perhaps the most hilarious Pentagon scheme designed to arm rebels in Syria to date (and that’s saying something). Following the comical demise of the latest “train and equip” program, the US […]

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‘Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Ankara will not allow Kurds to take control of northern Syria, accusing them of trying to grab land in the region. The Turkish president made the comments in a Saturday speech, condemning the recent merging of the Syrian town of Tal Abyad into an autonomous political structure established by […]

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‘The October 12, 2015 terror bombing in Ankara, resulting in the death of 127 trade unionists, peace activists, Kurdish advocates and progressives, has been attributed either to the Recep Tayyip Erdoğan regime or to ISIS terrorists. The Erdoğan regime’s ‘hypothesis’ is that ISIS or the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) was responsible for the terrorist attack, […]

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‘The Russian and American ambassadors, summoned to Turkey’s Foreign Ministry, were warned against providing the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) with military aid. Armed Kurdish units are successfully confronting Islamic State groups in Syria. Russian Ambassador Andrey Karlov and US Ambassador John Bass were summoned to the Turkish Foreign Service on Tuesday in connection with […]

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‘Turkish Interior Minister Selami Altinok says more than 2,000 members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) have been killed ever since the Turkish military launched clean-up operations against the militants in late June. “Since July 22, a total of 2,483 terrorist attacks have taken place in Turkey. Turkish gendarmerie, security and armed forces have also […]

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‘Hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the streets of Turkey to rally against terrorism. In the western port city of Istanbul, over 100,000 people showed up to show their support for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s controversial offensive against the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants. The main speaker at the rally was Erdogan himself […]

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‘Turkey’s main pro-Kurdish party has announced the death of at least 21 civilians during clashes between Turkish soldiers and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants in the Kurdish-populated town of Cizre. The announcement by People’s Democratic Party (HDP) on Thursday came after Turkey said as many as 32 PKK militants and only one civilian […]

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‘The Turkish Armed Forces have destroyed about 2,000 militants from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in recent weeks, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Monday. “About 2,000 terrorists were killed both in Qandil [region in the northern Iraq]and in Turkey,” Erdogan said in an interview with the Turkish ATV television channel. He added that the […]

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