The Turkish spy agency has developed a smartphone application to allow pro-government Turks living in Germany to inform their compatriots who oppose the Justice and Development Party (AKP). The existence of the telephone application was revealed in the annual report of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), the main counter-intelligence agency of [...]
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A government official said the Turkish Foreign Ministry summoned the Belgian ambassador to Ankara today after a Belgian court blocked the trial of around 30 people with alleged links to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). The convocation was decided after the Brussels court of appeal [...]
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Mevlut Cavusoglu, Turkish Foreign Minister, in a statement reported by Turkish CNN, said that Turkey is planning a military operation in Iraq against the Turkish Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) together with the Iraqi federal government. "Even if the Afrin operation has not yet been completed, we have the ability to bring [...]
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Four positions of the militiamen of the Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) were neutralized by the Turkish air force during some operations conducted in northern Iraq. This was announced by Anadolu, the Turkish news agency, citing a statement published today by the Ankara General Staff, according to which the operations were conducted in the northern regions of Avasin's Iraq, [...]
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Citing a statement published yesterday by the Ankara General Staff, the Turkish news agency Anadolu announced that the Turkish air force has "neutralized" 8 positions of the militants of the Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK), during some operations conducted in the north of 'Iraq. According to the statement from the General Staff, the raids were carried out on some [...]
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According to reports by the Turkish governor, Mehmet Tekin Arslan, two rockets fired from the Kurdish-Syrian enclave of Afrin and, which fell on the border town of Kilis, hit a mosque, causing at least one victim and 13 injured, some of whom would be in life threatening. The Turkish media attribute the launch to the Kurdish fighters of the YPG, accused, [...]
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The Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, announced on Saturday the start of operations by the Ankara army and the allied Syrian militias (FSA) in Afrin and, subsequently, in Manbij, against the positions of the Ypg, party militias of the Democratic Union (Pyd), a Syrian Kurdish formation that is part of the opposition to the government of Damascus. The operation, called "Olive Branch", [...]
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According to reports from the state agency Anadolu, 10 are the local exponents of the pro-Kurdish party HDP who were arrested by the Turkish anti-terrorism police, in an operation against PKK members, on charges of "propaganda in favor of terrorist organization through social media "and to have provided" logistical support and refuge "to suspected members [...]
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At least 2 people were killed in south-east Turkey in the explosion of a homemade device that exploded when the 2 armored vehicles of the army were traveling along the Diyarbakir-Batman road. According to reports from the Dogan agency, the victims are contractors and not military. According to the authorities, the attack was organized by the Kurdish PKK. A second […]
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Erdogan still fears small pockets of traitors within his army and has decided to change all military leaders, except the Chief of Staff Hulusi Akar. A reshuffle that was not entirely unexpected in the context of the purges initiated in the army after the attempted coup of July 15, 2016, but which nevertheless reserved some important surprises. Indicating that the [...]
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A total of 12 militants of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) were killed in north Iraq and southeast Turkey by Turkish airstrike on Wednesday, according to Turkish military sources. In a statement, Turkish General Staff said six PKK militants were killed in Iraq's Zap region during an air operation on Wednesday. Another six PKK militants [...]
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