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First Iraqi–Kurdish War (1961–1970) KDP: Iraq Syria: Kurdish Victory . Iraqi-Kurdish Autonomy Agreement; Second Iraqi–Kurdish War (1974–1975) KDP Iran: Iraq: Defeat. Iraq re-established control over Kurdistan; Kurdish Rebellion of 1983 (1983–1989) KDP PUK Iran: Iraq: Defeat. Al-Anfal Campaign; Kurdistan Region–PKK conflict (1983 ...
The offensive was launched with the intent to capture the Kurdish-majority city of Kobanî and positions in Ayn al-Arab District to the east of the Euphrates. The offensive was initiated with numerous airstrikes across the Kobanî countryside, and on the Tishrin Dam standing on the Euphrates between recently captured Manbij District territories ...
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.
Fidan Doğan was a Kurdish activist, who worked at the Kurdish information centre in Paris and also represented the Brussels-based Kurdish National Congress in France. She was shot dead in Paris, on 9 January 2013, with two other female Kurdish activists, Sakine Cansız and Leyla Söylemez. [22] 22 July 2015 Okan Acar PKK (alleged by Turkey)
Negotiators are zeroing in on a potential deal to resolve one of the most explosive questions looming over Syria's future: the fate of Kurdish forces that the U.S. considers key allies against ...
Kurdish PKK guerilla at the Newroz celebration in kandil, 23 March 2014. On 25 April 2013, PKK announced that it would be withdrawing all its forces within Turkey to northern Iraq. [234] According to the Turkish government [235] and the Kurds [236] and most of the press, [237] this move marks the end of 30-year-old conflict. Second phase which ...
Syrian Kurds attend a funeral of people killed in Turkish airstrikes in the village of Al Malikiyah , northern Syria, Monday, Nov. 21, 2022. The airstrikes, which Turkey said were aimed at Kurdish ...
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.