The initial attack occurred around 1 a.m. (6 a.m. EDT) in Bingol province, when around 15-20 members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) shot rockets and long range firearms at the security headquarters, the source said.The separatists fled after two of...
Guardian UnlimitedPublished: 8/29/2008 General also vows to defeat critics who falsely linked army to alleged anti-government coup attempt One of Turkey’s most senior army commanders has warned the Islamist-rooted government that it will face a powerful military...
Gunmen killed Ali Gaffar Okkan, the police chief in the southeast city of Diyarbakir, and five other officers in January 2001. Initial investigations suggested the Turkish Hezbollah network had carried out the assassination. Abdulkadir Aygan, described as a former...
This highly regarded 69-year-old man is "the Blonde Professor" of Turkey’s Kurds, since — as Martin van Bruinessen of Utrecht University has very appropriately said — for many years he was the only non-Kurdish person in Turkey to speak out...
It has been eight days since the Syrian security services kidnapped Mr. Mashaal Nehayet al-Tamo. It took place on 15 August 2008, when he struck Qobani city of about 2 .. 30am, in his car to go to Latakia city to meet with a professor Aref Dalilah who recently was...
Democratic Society Party, or DTP, leader Ahmet Türk argues that a cultural and political approach to the Kurdish problem is not only obligatory for a solution, it is the only way before the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, will lay down its arms....
