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Turkey: Erdogan says PKK protests threaten Sweden’s Nato aspirations

While Sweden's progress on anti-terrorism legislation supports its Nato aspirations, the country's ongoing protests by sympathisers of Kurdish militants could hamper these efforts, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's office has said. Erdogan was referring to the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, an armed group that has waged a decades-long conflict against the Turkish state. According to Erdogan's office, the president made these comments during a phone call with Dutch Prime […]

today6 July 2023

International

Erdogan threatens Syria ground operation ‘as soon as possible’

INTERNATIONAL The Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan appeared to say that Ankara is planning to deploy ground forces to attack Kurdish-led People’s Protection Units, or YPG, forces based across the border in Syria. Turkey blames what it considers to be the YPG’s parent organisation, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), for the November 13 bombing in central Istanbul, which killed six people. “We have been bearing down on terrorists for a few […]

today23 November 2022

International News

Turkey denies reports Syria will help YPG in Afrin

Turkey's deputy prime minister has dismissed as "false" media reports that Syrian government forces were poised to enter a Kurdish enclave in Syria's Afrin. Bekir Bozdag, however, warned any move by Syrian soldiers to help the Kurdish People's Protection Units, or YPG, repel a Turkish offensive in northwestern Syria would be a "major disaster" for the region. Turkey will continue its air and ground offensive against the YPG "with determination […]

today20 February 2018

International News

Manhunt on after Istanbul nightclub massacre kills 39

A manhunt was on in Turkey for at least one assailant who shot dead 39 people in a crowded Istanbul nightclub during New Year's celebrations and fled the scene. About 70 others were wounded, three of those people in critical condition, Binali Yildirim, Turkey's prime minister, said on Sunday. Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu described the attack as a "massacre, a truly inhumane savagery". "Our security forces have started the necessary […]

today2 January 2017

International News

Turkish police arrest pro-Kurdish HDP chiefs as part of ‘terrorism probe’

The two co-chairpeople of Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) were among 12 members arrested in the early hours of Friday as part of a "terrorism probe" of the political group. Selahattin Demirtas said on Twitter early on Friday that police had arrived at his house in Diyarbakir to arrest him. Social media websites, including Twitter and Facebook, were blocked in Turkey soon after. Demirtas was taken to court later […]

today4 November 2016

International News

Deaths as car bomb hits Hakkari army station

A car bomb attack on a military station has killed at least eight soldiers in the Hakkari province of southeast Turkey, according to state media. Sunday's attack in the Semdinli district also resulted in at least five injuries, Turkey's Anadolu news agency reported, citing a statement by the Turkish armed forces. Ambulances were sent to the area, Reuters news agency reported. Anadolu attributed the attack to the PKK, or the […]

today9 October 2016

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