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The 2014 Kobanî protests in Turkey were large-scale rallies by pro-People's Defense Units (YPG) protestors in Turkey which occurred in autumn 2014, as a spillover of the crisis in Kobanî. Large demonstrations unfolded in Turkey , and quickly descended into violence between protesters and the Turkish police .
The Kurdish people are a unique ethnic group with their own language and customs. In Turkey, the Kurdish uprising dates back to at least 1925, but the most recent major rebellion started in 1978 and has crossed the border into adjacent Iraqi Kurdistan on a number of occasions. Over 3,000 Kurdish villages have been "evacuated" by the Turkish ...
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. [22] The PKK said 1,557 Turkish security forces members were killed in 2015 during the clashes in Turkish and Iraqi Kurdistan, while it lost 220 ...
On 29 July 2016, the commander of U.S. Central Command, General Joseph Votel, denied statements by Turkey's president Erdoğan that he has supported the coup attempt in Turkey. [ 345 ] On 1 August 2016, United States Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman, General Joseph Dunford , visited Turkey and condemned the coup attempt. [ 346 ]
The following is a list of armed conflicts with victims in 2016. Conflict-related fatalities in the world's 15 deadliest countries in 2014, 2015 and 2016. The Heidelberg Institute for International Conflict Research estimated that there were 226 politically motivated armed conflicts (of which 38 estimated as highly violent: 18 full-scale wars ...
Read CNN’s 2011 Africa and Middle East Unrest Fast Facts and learn more about the Arab Spring anti-government protests that began in Tunisia in 2010.
2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine; Hong Kong 2014 Hong Kong protests; 2016 Mong Kok civil unrest; 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests; 2016–2017 Kashmir unrest (India) Kurdistan December 2009 Kurdish protests in Turkey; 2011 Kurdish protests in Iraq; 2011–2012 Kurdish protests in Turkey; 2014 Kobanî protests; 2019 Papua protests (Indonesia)
7 February – A plane is forced to land in Turkey following a bomb threat from a passenger [4] on board a flight from Kharkiv in Ukraine.; 9 February – Tear gas and water cannons used by the Erdoğan government against street protests against his government's internet restrictions.