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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.
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.
[14] [15] Mithat Sancar of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) accused the Government led by the Justice and Development Party for creating the environment for such racist attacks. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] [ 15 ] An angered member of a Kurdish-Islamic organization known as "Kurdistan Islamic Society" released a statement heavily condemning the ...
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.
Syrian Kurdish fighters carried out an attack early Monday in northern Syria, killing at least five members of Turkey-backed Syrian opposition forces, activists said. The attack south of the ...
ANKARA (Reuters) -Turkish forces have killed 58 Kurdish militants in northern Syria in overnight attacks on militant targets, the Defence Ministry said on Saturday, as conflict in the region ...
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 ...
On 21 November two Turkish civilians were killed in Karkamış, by a rocket attack believed to be conducted by the SDF. [13] Also according to SOHR one Turkish soldier was killed and 7 were injured in Bab Al-Salama crossing on the borders with Turkey, after shelling from Kurdish and regime areas in northern Aleppo. [14]