PKK/KONGRA-GEL Archive

  • Written by: Julian Clover Eutelsat has suspended satellite carriage of Roj TV after a Copenhagen court ruled the channel to be a vehicle of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). The PKK...

    Eutelsat drops Kurdish Roj TV

    Written by: Julian Clover Eutelsat has suspended satellite carriage of Roj TV after a Copenhagen court ruled the channel to be a vehicle of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). The PKK...

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  • By JPOST.COM STAFF 01/17/2012 21:02 Heron UAVs helped PKK set up bases in Hatay province, Turkish intelligence report says according to ‘Today’s Zaman’ Israeli unmanned aerial vehicles seen hovering over...

    ‘Israeli drones aiding PKK activities in Turkey’

    By JPOST.COM STAFF 01/17/2012 21:02 Heron UAVs helped PKK set up bases in Hatay province, Turkish intelligence report says according to ‘Today’s Zaman’ Israeli unmanned aerial vehicles seen hovering over...

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  • When the Centre for Turkey Studies and Development (CTSD) invited two leading journalists/writers from Turkey over to London to speak at a meeting in the House of Commons this evening...

    Democratisation and Political Change in Turkey

    When the Centre for Turkey Studies and Development (CTSD) invited two leading journalists/writers from Turkey over to London to speak at a meeting in the House of Commons this evening...

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  • COPENHAGEN, Jan 10 (Reuters) – A Danish court imposed a small fine on the owners of a Kurdish television station on Tuesday but did not shut it down, despite finding...

    Turkey angry after Danish court leaves Kurd TV on air

    COPENHAGEN, Jan 10 (Reuters) – A Danish court imposed a small fine on the owners of a Kurdish television station on Tuesday but did not shut it down, despite finding...

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  • A U.S. Predator drone had reportedly fired the first bomb in an airstrike that killed 35 Kurdish civilians in southeastern Turkey last month. In its main headline on Sunday, Turkish...

    ‘U.S. drone targeted civilians in Turkey’

    A U.S. Predator drone had reportedly fired the first bomb in an airstrike that killed 35 Kurdish civilians in southeastern Turkey last month. In its main headline on Sunday, Turkish...

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  • Posted on January 5th, 2012 by Samuel Krech Today in our class discussion we talked about the massacre of the Armenian population in Turkey during the first World War along...

    Turkey: At the Crossroads of East, West, North and South

    Posted on January 5th, 2012 by Samuel Krech Today in our class discussion we talked about the massacre of the Armenian population in Turkey during the first World War along...

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  • TAHA ÖZHAN Saturday,January 7 2012, Your time is 14:44:37 New Turkey, the PKK and jet lag Recently, Turkey has made considerable efforts to overcome its historical jet lag. On one...

    TAHA ÖZHAN – New Turkey, the PKK and jet lag

    TAHA ÖZHAN Saturday,January 7 2012, Your time is 14:44:37 New Turkey, the PKK and jet lag Recently, Turkey has made considerable efforts to overcome its historical jet lag. On one...

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  • Turkey uses Israeli-made Heron unmanned aerial vehicles in its military operation against Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) terrorists. (File photo) A senior Turkish politician has called on the government for an...

    ‘Turkey must end US, Israel intel. coop’

    Turkey uses Israeli-made Heron unmanned aerial vehicles in its military operation against Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) terrorists. (File photo) A senior Turkish politician has called on the government for an...

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  • ANKARA – Hürriyet Daily News Ümit Enginsoy Turkey plans to boosts fight against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party by acquiring several items of weapons and vehicles worth billions of US...

    Turkey awaits key anti-PKK weapons

    ANKARA – Hürriyet Daily News Ümit Enginsoy Turkey plans to boosts fight against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party by acquiring several items of weapons and vehicles worth billions of US...

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  • Kurds in Turkey: arrests and violence threaten to radicalise a generation Constanze Letsch reports on the Turkish crackdown on the country’s Kurds and the cultural oppression that goes with it Constanze...

    arrests and violence threaten to radicalise a generation

    Kurds in Turkey: arrests and violence threaten to radicalise a generation Constanze Letsch reports on the Turkish crackdown on the country’s Kurds and the cultural oppression that goes with it Constanze...

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  • A welcome spotlight shone on Turkey’s Kurdish war Maya Jaggi guardian.co.uk, Friday 16 December 2011 22.55 GMT Kurdistan Workers Party members silhouetted on a hillside in southeast Turkey Kurdish insurgents...

    The Lost Word by Oya Baydar

    A welcome spotlight shone on Turkey’s Kurdish war Maya Jaggi guardian.co.uk, Friday 16 December 2011 22.55 GMT Kurdistan Workers Party members silhouetted on a hillside in southeast Turkey Kurdish insurgents...

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  • Turkey denies use of chemical weapons by Ted Purlain on December 12, 2011 The Turkish military recently denied that it was using chemical weapons to fight against the rebel Kurdistan...

    Turkey denies use of chemical weapons

    Turkey denies use of chemical weapons by Ted Purlain on December 12, 2011 The Turkish military recently denied that it was using chemical weapons to fight against the rebel Kurdistan...

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  • Turkey claims to be a successful democracy, but for thousands of political protesters, it is anything but Ayca Çubukçu guardian.co.uk Riot police and Kurdish demonstrators. Turkish riot police clash with...

    Turkey: the ‘progressive’ land of repression

    Turkey claims to be a successful democracy, but for thousands of political protesters, it is anything but Ayca Çubukçu guardian.co.uk Riot police and Kurdish demonstrators. Turkish riot police clash with...

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  • COPENHAGEN – Anatolia News Agency This file photo shows front page of Danish newspaper Berlingske Tidende publishing a report on ROJ TV showing the relations between the TV and the...

    ROJ TV promotes PKK, says Danish prosecutor

    COPENHAGEN – Anatolia News Agency This file photo shows front page of Danish newspaper Berlingske Tidende publishing a report on ROJ TV showing the relations between the TV and the...

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  • British police raided yesterday a tent pitched by members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in front of St. Paul’s Cathedral amid a number of other tents belonging to...

    British police raid PKK tent in London

    British police raided yesterday a tent pitched by members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in front of St. Paul’s Cathedral amid a number of other tents belonging to...

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  • ANKARA, Dec. 4 (Xinhua) — Turkey’s Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc said on Sunday that a top member of the outlawed Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK) was arrested in the Turkish...

    PKK top member arrested in Istanbul: deputy PM

    ANKARA, Dec. 4 (Xinhua) — Turkey’s Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc said on Sunday that a top member of the outlawed Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK) was arrested in the Turkish...

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  • No one should be Fooled by Erdogan’s Empty Apology for Kurdish Massacres   By Harut Sassounian Publisher, The California Courier   Turkish society was thrown into turmoil last week when...

    Sassounian’s column of Dec. 1, 2011

    No one should be Fooled by Erdogan’s Empty Apology for Kurdish Massacres   By Harut Sassounian Publisher, The California Courier   Turkish society was thrown into turmoil last week when...

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  • German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his wife Emine attend a ceremony to celebrate 50 years of Turkish guest workers in Germany on November 2,...

    Is Turkey’s EU integration over?

    German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his wife Emine attend a ceremony to celebrate 50 years of Turkish guest workers in Germany on November 2,...

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  • 24 passengers and crew unharmed VOA News The hijacked ‘Kartepe’ ferry is seen in the Marmara sea off the northwestern Turkish town of Silivri, near Istanbul, November 12, 2011. Photo:...

    Turkish Forces Kill Ferry Hijacker

    24 passengers and crew unharmed VOA News The hijacked ‘Kartepe’ ferry is seen in the Marmara sea off the northwestern Turkish town of Silivri, near Istanbul, November 12, 2011. Photo:...

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  • Posted By Mohammed Ayoob Wednesday, November 9, 2011 – 4:52 PM Share Any time spent in Turkey and one cannot help but be taken in by the country’s economic dynamism...

    Turkey’s Kurdish conundrum

    Posted By Mohammed Ayoob Wednesday, November 9, 2011 – 4:52 PM Share Any time spent in Turkey and one cannot help but be taken in by the country’s economic dynamism...

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