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On 1 November 2014, multiple protests took place to support the Kurds of Kobanî. 5,000 people demonstrated in the Turkish town of Suruç, 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) from the border. At least 15,000 marched in Turkey's largest Kurdish-majority city of Diyarbakır and 1,000 protested in Istanbul, all peaceful. [16]
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.
Turkey was accused of assisting the Islamic State during the siege, [21] [better source needed] resulting in the widespread 2014 Kurdish riots in Turkey involving dozens of fatalities. In November 2015, Turkish authorities said that a number of towns and areas in the Eastern Anatolia Region had come under the control of PKK militants and ...
The 2011–2012 Kurdish protests in Turkey were protests in Turkey, led by the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP), against restrictions of Kurdish rights by of the country's Kurdish minority's rights. [14]
19 May – The 5.8 M w Kütahya earthquake shook western Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (Very strong). Two were killed and 122 were injured. 23 October – The 7.1 M w Van earthquake shook eastern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). More than 600 were killed and 4,152 were injured.
A cooling down occurred, and a ceasefire was brokered in 2014 – but then due to the Siege of Kobane the conflict has restarted. During the 1980s Turkey began a program of forced assimilation of its Kurdish population. [60] This culminated in 1984 when the PKK began a rebellion against Turkish rule attacking Turkish military.
On 17 August 2016, Turkey started releasing what was expected to eventually amount to about 38,000 prison inmates, to make more space in the penal system for detainees, numbering about 35,000, who were arrested or detained after being involved in or suspected of association, with the 2016 failed coup.
December 2009 Kurdish protests in Turkey; 2011 Kurdish protests in Iraq; 2011–2012 Kurdish protests in Turkey; 2014 Kobanî protests; 2019 Papua protests (Indonesia) March and Rally for Scottish Independence (2012–2013) Hirak Rif Movement (Morocco) Telangana movement (India) Gdeim Izik protest camp (Morocco) 2024 New Caledonia unrest (France)