Turkey was accused of assisting the Islamic State during the siege,[better source needed] resulting in the widespread 2014 Kurdish riots in Turkey involving dozens of fatalities. (wikipedia.org)
According to Turkish government sources, between July 2015 and May 2016, 2,583 Kurdish insurgents were killed in Turkey and 2,366 in Iraq, as well as 483 members of the Turkish security forces. (wikipedia.org)
According to the International Crisis Group, 4,310 people, including 465 civilians, were killed in Turkey between July 2015 and December 2018, including Kurdish lawyer Tahir Elçi. (wikipedia.org)
In 2014, anger increased among Turkish Kurds with what they saw as the Turkish state's facilitation of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant's assault on Syrian Kurds during the Rojava-Islamist conflict, culminating in the 2014 Kurdish riots in Turkey during the Siege of Kobanî. (wikipedia.org)
With the new wave of fighting from 2015 onward, observers said that active support for the PKK had become a "mass phenomenon" in majority ethnic Kurdish cities in the Southeast of the Republic of Turkey, with large numbers of local youth joining PKK-affiliated local militant groups. (wikipedia.org)
According to many critics of the project, the government of Turkey has constructed the Ilisu Dam to defeat the Kurdish insurgency, and to gain influence over Iraq and Syria through its weaponization of water. (minorityrights.org)
The Kurdish-Turkish conflict is an armed conflict between the Republic of Turkey and the PKK (Kurdish Workers' Party), which has demanded an independent Kurdistan for decades, calling for autonomy and greater political and cultural rights for Kurds in Turkey. (minorityrights.org)
Since the 1990s, the government of Turkey has used the GAP as a weapon in the fight against Kurdish insurgents. (minorityrights.org)
The government's discourse revolves around the idea that the dam will provide economic growth to people in south-east Turkey, and that economic development will deter local people from joining the Kurdish freedom movement. (minorityrights.org)
In southeastern Turkey meanwhile, Kurdish activists held a peaceful festival amid calls for reconciliation. (jpost.com)
Infrastructure development in southeastern Turkey was one of the AKP's promises. (strategypage.com)
September 4, 2008: Turkish forces killed three PKK rebels in two firefights, one in Sirnak province the other in Hakkari province (southeastern Turkey). (strategypage.com)
August 26, 2008: In a series of firefights in southeastern Turkey, aoksuwea and paramilitary police killed 14 PKK rebels. (strategypage.com)
Greater trade could overcome poverty in the Kurdish areas of south eastern Turkey and undermine militarism. (huffingtonpost.co.uk)
Kurdish rebel fighters from the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) have begun their withdrawal from southeastern Turkey as stipulated by a peace deal negotiated between Turkey and PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan in March. (foreignpolicy.com)
The crimes took place in the town of Cizre and surrounding villages in Şırnak province, southeastern Turkey between 1993 and 1995. (hrw.org)
On Sunday, Kurdish rebels attacked multiple police facilities in southeastern Turkey, killing at least five people. (voanews.com)
Last month, Kurdish rebels killed five people during multiple attacks on police facilities in southeastern Turkey. (voanews.com)
The Turks have found this type of aircraft particularly useful against Kurdish separatists (the PKK) operating in southeastern Turkey. (strategypage.com)
The PKK - the outlawed terrorist organization - led by terrorist Abdullah Ocalan, who is currently in a life imprisonment, is an insurgent movement seeking to establish an independent Kurdish state in south-eastern Turkey. (eurasiareview.com)
Furthermore, PKK terrorism mainly damages Turkish citizens of Kurdish origin this particularly describes those who live in south-eastern Turkey. (eurasiareview.com)
Turkey will also have to manage what was essentially a Kurdish revolution. (the-american-interest.com)
Will Turkey meet the Kurdish movement halfway and accommodate its demands, or will it take a nationalist turn and push back against the Kurds, with potentially dire consequences? (the-american-interest.com)
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey - There's no such thing as a quiet night in this southeastern city anymore. (foreignpolicy.com)
Turkey, meanwhile, has also detained more than 1,000 Kurdish activists and begun a fierce air campaign against the PKK's hideouts both inside Turkey and in northern Iraq, launching hundreds of air sorties that Turkish security officials claim have killed 390 PKK militants and wounded hundreds more. (foreignpolicy.com)
Turkey said it took all precautions to prevent any harm to the U.S. base while it was responding to Kurdish fire from a nearby area, Reuters reported. (foxnews.com)
In this photo taken from the Turkish side of the border between Turkey and Syria, in Akcakale, Sanliurfa province, southeastern Turkey, the town of Tel Abyad can be seen inside Syria, Saturday, Oct. 12, 2019. (foxnews.com)
The war-monitoring group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 74 Kurdish fighters have been killed since Wednesday as well as 49 Turkey-backed Syrian opposition fighters and 21 civilians. (foxnews.com)
The group is fighting for the creation of an independent Kurdish state in southeastern Turkey. (blogspot.com)
NATO on Friday condemned attack by Kurdish separatist rebels in southeastern Turkey, in which 13 soldiers were killed and seven injured. (trend.az)
MURSITPINAR, Turkey - Kurdish forces held out in Kobane on Thursday as a jihadist offensive entered its second month, but the Pentagon warned US-led air strikes may not prevent the Syrian border town's fall. (asiaone.com)
Veteran Dutch reporter Fréderike Geerdink was detained on Sunday by authorities in southeastern Turkey while she covered a Kurdish opposition group. (vice.com)
As a teenager, Mutlu Kaya, a Kurdish woman from south-eastern Turkey, was a promising singer. (thefancarpet.com)
Many Kurdish households in rural Turkey are headed by the mother , with fathers and sons often lost to war or disappeared. (links.org.au)
Turkey's military says it has killed 307 Kurdish separatists in recent weeks, in a counterterrorism operation in southeastern Turkey. (therealnews.com)
PERIES: So Richard, until recently, Demirtas and the HDP have called for more rights for the Kurdish population within Turkey, rather than for the creation of a Kurdish state outside of Turkey. (therealnews.com)
Όρος Νεμρούτ) is a 2,134-metre-high (7,001 ft) mountain in southeastern Turkey , notable for the summit where a number of large statues are erected around what is assumed to be a royal tomb from the 1st century BC. (wikipedia.org)
America's NATO ally Turkey is fighting US-backed Kurdish forces in northern Syria in the wake of mixed messages sent by the US amid the fight against the Islamic State. (vice.com)
The attack is indicative of the complicated situation in Syria, where NATO member Turkey is allied with the US against Islamic State, while the US also supports the Kurds, who support a Kurdish insurgency in Turkey. (vice.com)
Three soldiers were killed and six others were wounded when a bomb hit a military vehicle in southeastern Turkey on Thursday, the latest incident of bloodshed. (vice.com)
Meanwhile, Turkish security forces continue to clash on a almost daily basis with PKK militants, mostly in predominantly Kurdish parts of southeastern Turkey. (turnto23.com)
Police arrested 21 people in the Kurdish-majority city of Mardin in southeastern Turkey for "terrorist propaganda", according to state news agency Anadolu. (alarabiya.net)
Turkey launched "Operation Peace Spring" on Wednesday against the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, which it considers a "terrorist" offshoot of Kurdish insurgents in its own territory. (alarabiya.net)
Turkey arrested online critics during previous offensives against Kurdish forces in Syria, accusing them of "terrorist propaganda. (alarabiya.net)
Earlier in November, president of the bar association and a campaigner for Kurdish rights, Tahir Elci was shot dead by unknown gunmen on a street in Diyarbakir in Kurdish-dominated southeastern Turkey. (rt.com)
In October, two Syrian journalists, Ibrahim Abd al-Qader and Fares Hamadi - also an early member of RBSS group - were found slain in an apartment in the town of Urfa in southeastern Turkey. (rt.com)
By Dasha Afanasieva and Alexander Dziadosz SURUC Turkey/BEIRUT (Reuters) - A convoy of peshmerga fighters from northern Iraq headed across southeastern Turkey on Wednesday towards the Syrian town of Kobani to try to help fellow Kurds break an Islamic State siege which has defied U.S.-led air strikes. (yahoo.com)
The presence of Kurdish forces passing with government permission through a part of Turkey which has seen a three-decade insurgency by local Kurdish PKK militants was an extraordinary sight for many residents. (yahoo.com)
Kurds are furious that Turkey has not intervened to defend the mainly Kurdish Syrian border town of of Ain al-Arab from Islamic State group jihadists. (voanews.com)
The earthquakes' affects in northern Syria is deeply saddening and we grieve for the losses of lives for everyone affected there along with the people in Southeastern Turkey, both mainly Kurdish regions. (justgiving.com)
FILE - A supporter of Turkey's main pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) holds a portrait of its jailed former leader and presidential candidate Selahattin Demirtas during a campaign event in Istanbul, Turkey, June 17, 2018. (voanews.com)
The aim of this thesis is to investigate how the Kurdish question in Turkey has affected the country`s security policies during the time between 1984 and 2005. (lu.se)
These specific institutions are chosen because they are crucial in the securitisation and handling of the Kurdish question in Turkey. (lu.se)
Furthermore, Turkey`s foreign policies will also be analysed insofar it has been affected by the Kurdish presence in Turkey and its neighbouring countries. (lu.se)
The thesis argues that the Kurdish question, and indeed Turkey as a whole, would have been better served had it not been a securitised issue. (lu.se)
Turkey's11
A Turkish policeman has been stabbed to death while trying to break up a demonstration by Kurdish youths marking the anniversary of the start of the Kurdish insurgency, Turkey's state-run news agency said Sunday. (jpost.com)
Last month, Turkey's military said it killed as many as 160 Kurdish rebels in air and artillery strikes across the border. (voanews.com)
Both Turkish Army and paramilitary police (gendarmerie) are participating in the various operations in Turkey's predominantly-Kurd southeastern provinces. (strategypage.com)
Turkey's parliament voted Wednesday to extend the government's mandate to order military strikes against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq. (voanews.com)
In August, Turkey's military said it killed about 160 Kurdish rebels in cross-border air and artillery strikes. (voanews.com)
Following the pre-dawn air raids on the IS targets in Syria, Turkish police arrested almost 300 suspected members of IS and pro-Kurdish militant groups nationwide, in one of Turkey's biggest recent crackdowns on extremists. (foreignpolicy.com)
The towns along Turkey's border with northeastern Syria have been on high alert after dozens of mortars fired from Kurdish-held Syria landed, killing several civilians. (foxnews.com)
Demirtas is Kurdish, and he leads the party that unites the Kurdish nationalist forces and Turkey's left-wing groups. (therealnews.com)
Turkey's president says a boy as young as 12 carried out a deadly bombing near the Syrian border in the southeastern Turkish city of Gaziantep. (vice.com)
The Kurdish fighters were given a heroes' welcome as their convoy of jeeps and flatbed trucks, some bearing heavy machineguns, snaked its way for around 400 km (250 miles) through Turkey's mostly Kurdish southeast after crossing the border from northern Iraq. (yahoo.com)
ANKARA - Four Turkish police officers were killed and around 20 people were wounded in a car bomb attack on Thursday in Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeastern city of Diyarbakir, a government official said. (jpost.com)
Turkish21
In late July 2015, the third phase of the Kurdish-Turkish conflict between various Kurdish insurgent groups and the Turkish government erupted, following a failed two and a half year-long peace process aimed at resolving the long-running conflict. (wikipedia.org)
These began in late 2012, but failed to progress in light of the growing tensions on the Turkish-Syrian border in late 2014, when the Turkish state prevented its Kurdish citizens from sending support to the People's Protection Units (YPG) who were fighting against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) during the Siege of Kobani. (wikipedia.org)
In March 2017, the United Nations voiced "concern" over the Turkish government's operations and called for an independent assessment of the "massive destruction, killings and numerous other serious human rights violations" against the ethnic Kurdish minority. (wikipedia.org)
The Kurdish-Turkish peace process saw negotiations begin between jailed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan and the Turkish government in late 2012. (wikipedia.org)
The official narrative of Turkish authorities has been that the large bodies of water could prevent PKK militias from crossing the border, which would thus deter displaced Kurdish people from joining the Kurdish resistance within Turkish territory. (minorityrights.org)
Now Turkish pollsters report an increasing number of Kurds divided on so-called "Kurdish issues," based on whether or not they support the Democratic Society Party (DTP), a "pro-Kurd" political party. (strategypage.com)
However, Kurds who don't support the DTP tend to hold more "Turkish nationalist" views and downplay the "Kurdish problem" that PKK radicals say only Kurdish separatism will resolve. (strategypage.com)
During a negotiated withdrawal in 1999, the Turkish military ambushed Kurdish fighters, killing an estimated 500 people. (foreignpolicy.com)
Turkish Defense Minister Ismet Yilmaz said Wednesday his country is determined to take any measure necessary to battle Kurdish rebels operating in northern Iraq. (voanews.com)
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said Ankara's "patience is running out" with the rebels, who have waged a campaign for autonomy in the country's largely Kurdish southeast since 1984. (voanews.com)
After the PKK was vanquished by the Turkish Army Force in the 1990s, the PKK suddenly changed its rhetoric from pursuit of independence to recognition of the Kurdish identity and limited autonomy. (eurasiareview.com)
They made this decision despite the fact that there are no legal or other forms of discrimination against Turkish citizens of Kurdish origin, and these citizens have enjoyed full political rights under the Turkish constitution. (eurasiareview.com)
One of these was the young rising star of Turkish politics, HDP leader Selahattin Demirtaş, who managed to get 10 percent of the vote, a breakthrough for a Kurdish candidate. (the-american-interest.com)
Turkish police arrested more than 20 people on charges of "terrorist propaganda" on Thursday over their criticism of a military offensive launched against Kurdish forces in Syria. (alarabiya.net)
And then they wonder why we have ´Kurdish problem´ and that also explains what ´the Turkish problem´ is. (turkishclass.com)
RT's crew covering Kurdish protests following Elci's murder was teargassed by the Turkish police while filming on the spot. (rt.com)
3 Smoke rises after a strike on the Syrian town of Ain al-Arab, known as Kobani by the Kurds, as seen from the Turkish-Syrian border, in the southeastern village of Mursitpinar, Sanliurfa province. (voanews.com)
According to Evin Jiyan Kisanak, the daughter of Gultan Kisanak, an imprisoned Kurdish politician and former mayor of Diyarbakir, the Turkish Ministry of Justice as early as March 11 had banned all visits into prisons to prevent the spread of the virus. (voanews.com)
FILE - Several hundred Turkish Kurds, including lawmaker Gultan Kisanak, center, gather to protest the killings of three Kurdish women in Paris, in the southeastern Turkish city of Diyarbakir, Jan. 10, 2013. (voanews.com)
Rights groups say if the proposed bill is passed without amendment, it would exclude journalists, Kurdish politicians, human rights activists and people punished for association with the Gulen movement, a spiritual-political movement inspired by Turkish Islamic preacher Fethullah Gulen, who has lived in the United States since 1999. (voanews.com)
This thesis will seek to show that the Kurdish question have indeed affected Turkish policies and the Turkish society on virtually all levels. (lu.se)
Diyarbakir2
On November 26, Hatice Kamer, a VOA Kurdish Service reporter in Diyarbakir, went to the city of Siirt to speak to the relatives of victims of a mining accident she had previously covered. (usagm.gov)
But some residents of Diyarbakir, the unofficial capital of the country's Kurdish heartland, fear that the worst is yet to come. (foreignpolicy.com)
Kurds3
The overall goal of the authorities is to undermine Kurdish cultural rights in order to pursue the homogenization of Kurds, and their assimilation within the long-standing campaign of Turkification. (minorityrights.org)
Damascus, Tehran, Baghdad and Ankara used to co-ordinate their anti-Kurdish policies but are no longer united against the Kurds. (huffingtonpost.co.uk)
The country's Kurds could be kingmakers, prompting politicians of different stripes to court their votes and opening much-needed debate about longstanding Kurdish demands. (crisisgroup.org)
Insurgency1
As Ankara approaches a crucial political moment, an insurgency threatens to spiral out of control in the country's Kurdish regions. (foreignpolicy.com)
Militants2
Left wing protesters shout slogans and hold red flag during a demonstration denouncing a police operation against Kurdish militants, on July 24, 2015 at Gazi district in Istanbul. (foreignpolicy.com)
IS lost 374 of its militants, while 268 people have been killed fighting on the Kurdish side, he said. (asiaone.com)
Selahattin Demirtas2
Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtas said, 'We have no doubt about the state but fear provocation from dark forces. (foreignpolicy.com)
Among the most high-profile prisoners is Selahattin Demirtas, a Kurdish politician and former co-leader of the HDP. (voanews.com)
Campaign for autonomy1
They were commemorating the start of the Kurdish rebels' campaign for autonomy on Aug. 15, 1984, when rebels first attacked police and military units. (jpost.com)
Demirtas1
PERIES: Now, in late December, Richard, Demirtas backed a resolution passed by the Kurdish Democratic Society Congress, known as the DTK, which reiterated an old demand that they have had for the creation of a Kurdish autonomous region, and for self-governance. (therealnews.com)
Fighters4
Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said the strikes had killed 'several hundred' fighters with the Islamic State group and a Kurdish official inside Kobane said they had pushed the jihadists back from parts of the town. (asiaone.com)
Nassen said Kurdish forces were 'flushing out' IS fighters from the eastern and southeastern parts of the town, calling for more military assistance. (asiaone.com)
An initial group of between 90 and 100 peshmerga fighters arrived by plane amid tight security in the nearby city of Sanliurfa early on Wednesday, according to Adham Basho, a member of the Syrian Kurdish National Council from Kobani. (yahoo.com)
At least a dozen shells fired by Islamic State fighters fell on the town overnight as clashes with the main Syrian Kurdish armed group, the YPG, continued, according to the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. (yahoo.com)
Syria2
The government denied civilians had been hurt in its strikes on Kurdish militant positions in northern Syria. (alarabiya.net)
The largest ethnic minority in Syria is Kurdish, which constitutes roughly 9% of the total population. (cdc.gov)
Activists1
Activists have reported that the dam threatens valuable biodiversity, and endangers animal and plant species as well as human lives, for instance through the displacement of local Kurdish communities. (minorityrights.org)
Syrian2
Kurdish refugee boys from the Syrian town of Kobani sit near their family tent in a camp in the southeastern town of Suruc, Sanliurfa. (marketplace.org)
Saleh Moslem, co-chair of the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD), said the peshmerga were expected to bring heavy arms to Kobani - known as Ayn al-Arab in Arabic. (yahoo.com)
Strikes1
In Kobane, Kurdish official Idris Nassen said IS had pulled back from some areas of the town but appealed for more air strikes as well as weapons to fight the jihadists. (asiaone.com)
Offensive1
Kurdish forces have sustained heavy losses since IS launched its offensive on the Kurdish enclave around Kobane on September 16 but so too have the jihadists. (asiaone.com)
Citizens1
It was unable to win any votes from citizens of Kurdish origin. (worldbulletin.net)
People3
The destruction of the 12,000-year-old city of Hasankeyf, an important Kurdish heritage site, would impact the social ties of Kurdish people, cutting them off from their history, memory and sense of cultural belonging. (minorityrights.org)
as long as there people exists like you, offending anything done regarding to their being kurdish. (turkishclass.com)
but Kurdish people suffered more from their "Aşiret Ağaları" who abused them for years and years than the government itself. (turkishclass.com)
The reconciliation process led by the president had the prime objective of creating a civilian political representative of the Kurdish political movement. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
I think that's what will happen with the Kurdish reconciliation process too. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
That is why whenever someone asks me whether we are seeing the demise of the Kurdish reconciliation process, I say "bu şarkı burada bitmez" a la Erdoğan. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
Forces1
AFP: Baghdad has accused Iranian forces of having over the last 24 hours entered Iraqi territory and shelled Kurdish PKK guerrillas in the northern Arbil province. (blogspot.com)
City1
Police in the southeastern city of Diyarbakır yesterday detained Sedat Sur and Özgür Aydın, reporters for the pro-Kurdish Fırat News Agency, Evrensel reported . (cpj.org)
Provinces1
In most of the eastern and the southeastern provinces, the CHP could not even organize rallies. (worldbulletin.net)
Independence1
Some senior British figures believe that Iraqi Kurdish independence is near. (huffingtonpost.co.uk)
State2
They see it as protection from Huda-Par [a Kurdish Sunni Islamist movement] and other agents of the state. (foreignpolicy.com)
To do this, several different factors are analysed, such as the securitisation of the Kurdish question, the (non)involvement of the civil society, and several state institutions. (lu.se)
Demands1
Politicians, especially those opposing President Erdoğan and his Justice and Development (AK) Party, have pledged to address some Kurdish demands in a bid to win their support. (crisisgroup.org)
Town1
Thousands took to the streets of the border town of Suruc, descending on its tree-lined main square and spilling into side streets, some with faces painted in the colors of the Kurdish flag. (yahoo.com)
Party2
The pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) more than doubled its support and will have a substantial presence in parliament. (the-american-interest.com)
However, local outlets reported Tuesday that a dismissed mayor from the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), Nalan Ozaydin, had been released from prison after testing positive. (voanews.com)
Parliament2
Now, all four parties in parliament, including the pro-Kurdish HDP, will again be there with each having three MPs, plus the parliament speaker. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
This and the HDP general assembly in February carry the potential to create an environment totally different from the 1990s, when Kurdish MPs were kicked out of parliament. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
Presidential1
in retrospect, his gambit to open peace talks with the PKK was in great part an attempt to gain the Kurdish vote for his presidential ambitions. (the-american-interest.com)
Villages1
So when a deep ecologist says "humans are responsible for everything" they imply that the chiefs of the fossil fuel industries are no more guilty than our Kurdish grandmothers who live in their villages tending the land. (links.org.au)
Government1
The government is targeting Kurdish identity through the construction of the dam. (minorityrights.org)
Movement4
Second, the Kurdish political movement of today is not that of the 1990s. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
In this spirit, this article documents reflections from a series of conversations with members of the Kurdish movement on climate change. (links.org.au)
For the Kurdish movement, this avoids the question of who has profited from environmental damage and delays an effective solution to the problem. (links.org.au)
This takes a central place in our theory of liberation , and women's science, named jineology , has become a fundamental tenet of the Kurdish movement. (links.org.au)
Stones1
His riot squad was deployed to break up a protest in which Kurdish youths burnt tires and threw stones. (jpost.com)
Human1
The dam threatens valuable biodiversity, and endangers animal and plant species as well as human lives, including through the displacement of local Kurdish communities. (minorityrights.org)