Kurds
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Erdogan calls for 'concrete steps' in Syria during call with Putin
President Erdogan tells his Russian counterpart Putin that the Syrian government needs to be "constructive" for "concrete results" in Syria.
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Sweden’s new gov’t says will fulfil deal with Turkey on NATO
Sweden’s new center-right government has said it will fulfil all requirements under a deal with Turkey to join the NATO alliance, the Associated Press reported on Monday.
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Jihadist group seizes Kurdish town controlled by Turkish-backed forces
Syrian jihadist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) has taken over a town controlled by Turkish-backed groups in northwest Syria, U.S.-government funded Voice of America outlet reported on Thursday.
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Current situation of Turkey's Kurdish issue - analysis
According to the Middle East Institute, the Turkey Kurdish political movement has been under unprecedented pressure and the Kurdish People's Democratic Party (HDP) has been shown a demonic face in the Turkish media.
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Erdogan signals meeting with Syrian President Bashar Assad
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday hinted at the possibility of meeting Syrian counterpart Bashar Assad in the future, confirming Ankara’s tentative steps to restore ties with the neighbouring war-torn country despite backing rebel groups in Syria's civil war.
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Sweden resumes arms exports to Turkey
Sweden's Strategic Production Supervision Organization has issued a license for Swedish companies to export arms to Turkey.
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Where will Turkey be a year from now?
The disputes with Greece will be useful ammunition for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan should he decide to manufacture a crisis that would divert attention away from his country’s economic disintegration.
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Banning PKK and YPG is totally outdated, professor tells Kurdpress
Prof Birgit Ammann believes it has to be made clear that there is also a lot of serious critique against both the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and the People's Defense Units (YPG) and their political environment- within and outside the Kurdish communities and that that the ban of both groups is totally outdated in Germany. A professor from the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, she also said it is virtually impossible and unnecessary to figure the number of the Kurds in the world because Kurds do not need a number to justify their claims.
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Erdogan calls Turkey’s teachers 'looters' amid protests, calls for exam boycott
Turkey's president has called protesting teachers "looters," a derogative reminiscent of the 2013 Gezi protests.
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Putin and Erdogan may meet soon
Russian President Vladimir Putin may meet with Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the near future, the Kremlin said.
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Why Turkey is Syria’s biggest threat / Sinam Mohamad
To maintain hard fought progress in Syria, preventing Turkish aggression against Syria’s Kurds is paramount.
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Turkish opposition wants Kurds onside in election battle against Erdogan
Turkey’s main opposition party is seeking a commitment from the country’s largest pro-Kurdish party to back a single challenger to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at presidential elections.
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Erdogan says Turkey won't rush new operation in Syria
Turkey will not hasten to stage a new military operation against armed Kurdish groups in northern Syria, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday, putting brakes on the promised offensive targeting the towns of Tal Rifaat and Manbij.
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US, Kurdish officials call Turkish threats of military operation in Syria 'serious'
Ankara's threats come amid a spat with NATO allies over Finland and Sweden’s request to join the Western alliance.
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Turkey shows reality of NATO, says scholar
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s demands that Sweden and Finland end support for Kurdish militants to secure membership of NATO is deeply revealing for all concerned, said Cihan Tugal, an author and professor of sociology at the University of California.
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Analyst says US government does not welcome Kurdish-Kurdish talks
Hiwa Osman says that since the beginning of Joe Biden's government, there has been a kind of reluctance in this government towards Kurdish-Kurdish talks in Iraq and Syria, while Washington can help resolve the differences between the Kurds.
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An exhibit meant to showcase Kurdish suffering provoked a furor instead
Dozens of brightly painted coffins marked with the initials of dead Kurdish civilians were laid out on the upper battlements of an ancient fortress. A wall of street signs bearing the names of other victims and a towering pile of rubber shoes recalled the thousands killed or imprisoned during decades of conflict.
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A Sadr-led government is the most likely scenario for Iraq, says KDP official
A member of the political bureau of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) predicted that the most likely scenario for the formation of a new government in Iraq is a government led by Sadr Movement which won the majority of the votes in the Iraqi parliament elections on October 10.
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US and Europe do not care about the fate of Kurds: Ukrainian professor
Vladimir Kornilov, a professor of political science and a Ukrainian historian, believes that neither Europe nor the United States cares about the fate of the Kurds.
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Erdogan wants Kurds to be left alone by the West: professor
Professor Amin Saikal says part of the difference between the Turkish president and Western countries is that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan wants the West to end its cooperation with the Kurds in Iraq and Syria and leave them alone.
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Turkey use of chemical weapons proves its defeat: officials
Turkey's use of chemical weapons during its “dirty war” in Iraqi Kurdistan is an admission of their defeat at the hands of the guerilla resistance, officials told the Morning Star today.
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Erdogan and Putin discuss Syria in Wednesday meeting
Peace in Syria is dependent on relations between Ankara and Moscow, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday during a summit with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.
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Demirtas says southeast Turkey wildfires deliberately set to target region
The jailed former chair of Turkey pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Selahattin Demirtas said on Monday the raging wildfires in southeastern Tunceli province were deliberately set as part of an ongoing “policy’’ targeting the region’s Kurdish population.
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Party official says US is not trustworthy and Syrian Kurds should get united
A member of the Central Committee of the Syrian Kurdistani Union Party (PYKS) urged the Kurds in Syria not to trust the US and count on it for the future and stated that Kurds need unity and brotherhood to get prepared for upcoming political events in Syrian Kurdistan.
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Why a Turkish dictator let himself lose an election / Nicholas Danforth
Turkey's second president Ismet Inonu surprised the world by stepping down in 1950. Could Erdogan do the same after the 2023 elections?
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Erdogan's anti-Kurdish pogroms – a call for international solidarity
Last Friday afternoon, in the district of Konya in south-central Turkey, seven members of a family were murdered by anti-Kurdish racists in the neighborhood where they had lived for twenty-four years. This, alone, should illicit international condemnation of the attack and solidarity with Kurds in Turkey.