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The Sheikh Said rebellion was the first large scale rebellion of the Kurdish race movement in Turkey. The main organizer of this rebellion was the Kurdish Independent Society, Azadî. Azadi's intention was to liberate Kurds from Turkish oppression and thus deliver freedom and further, develop their country.
The Kurdistan Workers' Party insurgency [note 2] is an armed conflict between the Republic of Turkey and the Kurdistan Workers' Party, as well as its allied insurgent groups, both Kurdish and non-Kurdish, [68] who have either demanded separation from Turkey to create an independent Kurdistan, [35] or attempted to secure autonomy, [69] and/or ...
The Kurdistan Workers' Party [a] or PKK is a Kurdish militant political organization and armed guerrilla movement which historically operated throughout Kurdistan but is now primarily based in the mountainous Kurdish-majority regions of southeastern Turkey and northern Iraq.
The Kurdish insurgency is an armed conflict between the Republic of Turkey and various Kurdish insurgent groups, [1] [2] which have demanded separation from Turkey to create an independent Kurdistan, [3] [4] or to have autonomy [5] and greater political and cultural rights for Kurds in Turkey. [6] The main rebel group is the Kurdistan Workers ...
Talks aimed at ending a 40-year-old militant conflict have fostered peace hopes in Turkey but the precarious situation of Kurdish forces in Syria and uncertainty about Ankara's intentions have ...
Since the toppling of President Bashar al-Assad last month by rebels - some of which have been backed by Turkey for years - Ankara has repeatedly said the Kurdish YPG militia must disband, lay ...
A post shared on social media purportedly shows a recent video of Kurdish rebels shooting down a Turkish helicopter recently. Verdict: Misleading The video dates back to 2016. Fact Check: The ...
The Sheikh Said rebellion (Kurdish: Serhildana Şêx Seîd; [5] Turkish: Şeyh Said İsyanı) was a Kurdish nationalist and Islamist rebellion in Southeast Anatolia in 1925 led by Sheikh Said and with support of the Azadî [6] movement and local religious and feudal leaders against the newly-founded secular Turkish Republic. [7]