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The Turkey–Islamic State conflict were a series of attacks and clashes between the state of Turkey and the Islamic State. Turkey joined the War against the Islamic State in 2016, after the Islamic State attacks in Turkey. The Turkish Armed Forces' Operation Euphrates Shield was aimed against both the Islamic State and the SDF. Part of Turkish ...
The diverse Muslim ethnic groups of the former Empire were considered Turkish by the newly formed secular Turkish state, which did not recognize an independent Kurdish or Islamic national identity. One of the consequences of these seismic changes was a series of uprisings in Turkey's Kurdish-populated eastern and southeastern regions. [43]
Turkey appealed for the population's right of self-determination and claimed that the majority wanted to be a part of Turkey. [1] The British responded that the Kurds were of Indo-European and the Turks of Ural-Altaic origin, and on the 4 February 1923, the parties decided that the Mosul Question would be excluded from the Lausanne Treaty ...
Yasser Tabbaa, an Islamic anthropologist, claimed that by the late 12th century, the Ayyubid rulers had completely "Arabized". [9] Some Iranic elements were detected in their names, such as Turan-Shah, Shahanshah, Bahramshah, Farrukh Shah. [10] Kurds dominated the Ayyubid cavalry. [11] Turkomans and Arabs comprised most of the infantry. [9]
Some of the Kurds accused Turkey of assisting the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) during the crisis, resulting in widespread Kurdish riots in Turkey involving dozens of fatalities. The tensions further escalated in summer 2015 with the 20 July bombing in Suruç , allegedly executed by an ISIL-affiliated Turkish group against Kurdish ...
The Turkish Armed Forces and its ally the Syrian National Army have occupied [7] [8] areas of northern Syria since August 2016, during the Syrian civil war.Though these areas nominally acknowledge a government affiliated with the Syrian opposition, in practice they constitute a separate proto-state [9] under the dual authority of decentralized native local councils and Turkish military ...
The Solution process (Turkish: Çözüm süreci), [1] also known as Peace process (Turkish: Barış süreci; Kurdish: Proseya Aştiyê) or the PKK–Turkish peace process, was a peace process that aimed to resolve the conflict between Turkey and the PKK as part of the Kurdish–Turkish conflict (1978–present). The conflict has been ongoing ...
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 ...