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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]
In Turkey, the Kurdish uprising dates back to at least 1925, but the most recent major rebellion started in 1978 and has crossed the border into adjacent Iraqi Kurdistan on a number of occasions. Over 3,000 Kurdish villages have been "evacuated" by the Turkish armed forces since the conflict began.
After the hostile reactions of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan [4] and Turkish society, Turkish Cypriots organized a second and third rally on 2 March and 7 April 2011. The average turnout was 50,000–80,000, [ 5 ] [ 6 ] making these some of the largest demonstrations by Turkish Cypriots under the occupation. [ 7 ]
Read CNN’s 2011 Africa and Middle East Unrest Fast Facts and learn more about the Arab Spring anti-government protests that began in Tunisia in 2010.
The legal investigation began in 2014, [9] but it was only in 2019 when the former Co-Chairs of the HDP Selahattin Demirtas and Figan Yüksekdag were questioned. [10] In September 2021 against several HDP politicians like the mayor of Kars Ayhan Bilgen, or the MPs Sırri Süreyya Önder and Ayla Akat Ata was ordered pre-trial detention. [11]
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 Roboski massacre (Kurdish: Komkujiya Roboskî), also known as the Uludere airstrike, [3] [4] took place on December 28, 2011, at Ortasu, Uludere near the Iraq-Turkey border, when the Turkish Air Force bombed a group of Kurdish civilians who had been involved in smuggling gasoline and cigarettes, killing 34.