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At least 14 civilians were killed and 29 wounded in attacks by Turkish-backed forces in northern Syria on Monday and Tuesday, the U.S.-backed Kurdish militia group said. The Kurdish-led Syrian ...
Turkey has faced attacks from Isis in the past, with the last major wave of bombings from 2015 to 2017. Britain’s prime minister Sir Keir Starmer said he was “appalled” by Wednesday’s attack.
The Kurdish separatist group PKK has claimed responsibility for a deadly attack on a Turkish state-owned defense manufacturer near Ankara. U.S.-allied Kurds in Syria say 12 people killed in ...
The 2021 Konya massacre was the killing of a Kurdish family in Turkey. 4 women and 3 men were killed as a result. [13] [14] According to an interview given by members of the family to Duvar, the attackers where close to the far-right Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) who did not want to permit Kurds to live in the neighborhood.
Deniz Poyraz was born in 1983 in İzmir as the eldest of nine siblings to a Kurdish family from Tavuklu village, Mardin. [10] [11] Soon after her birth the family returned to Mardin, where according to an interview some family members gave to human rights media Bianet, the family's home was several times raided. [11]
Turkey continued its strikes in Syria and Iraq for a second day following the terrorist attack on a defense company in Ankara, in what Turkey said were targeted hits on PKK terrorist locations.
Kurdish ethnic revival appeared in the 1970s when Turkey was racked with left-right clashes and the Marxist PKK was formed demanding a Kurdish state. [58] PKK declared its objective as the liberation of all parts of Kurdistan from colonial oppression and establishment of an independent, united, socialist Kurdish state.
Turkey's defense ministry said on Thursday that a spate of attacks the previous day and overnight by Kurdish fighters in northern Iraq killed at least six Turkish soldiers. The attacks prompted ...