The Kurdistan Freedom Falcons (TAK), a Marxist terrorist group affiliated with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), has taken responsibility for a car bombing in Istanbul this week that killed 11 people. The group is warning tourists to stay away from Turkey or face death.
Contents: Turkey bans fertilizer sales after two terror bombings; Israel deploys hundreds of troops to West Bank, cancels entry permits; Israel cracks down on Palestinian workshops producing guns
A Manhattan resident, identified as an anarchist-communist, has snuck into war-ravaged Syria to join the Marxist People’s Protection Units (YPG), a Kurdish militia that receives military support from the United States in its fight against the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), reports New York City’s progressive newspaper The Village Voice.
Contents: Israel’s Netanyahu responds cautiously to Tel Aviv terror attack; West Bank Palestinians reject call to end security cooperation with Israel; Turkey endures two days of terror bombing attacks; Terror attacks in Turkey complicate EU-Turkey migrant deal
Dictator Bashar al-Assad, seemingly ignoring President Barack Obama’s push to advance a political solution to the Syrian conflict, has reportedly vowed to “liberate” every inch of Syria.
Turkish police have announced four swift detentions connected with Tuesday’s car bomb attack on a police bus in Istanbul. 11 people are confirmed dead, including seven police officers and four civilians, while at least 36 more were injured, several of them critically.
Taliban jihadists replaced their Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) counterparts as the world’s chief perpetrators of terrorism attacks last year, with 1,093 individual attacks, according to the U.S. Department of State’s Country Reports on Terrorism 2015.
On Monday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused Russia of using Iraqi and Syrian pipelines to smuggle weapons to the Kurdish separatists of the PKK. The next day brought a demand from Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov that Turkey remove all its troops from Iraq.
Photos of U.S. special forces wearing the insignia of the Syrian Kurdish Protection Units (YPG) drew ire from Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who has repeatedly accused the militia of being linked to the terrorist group known as the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).
The Pentagon has seemingly changed its position on U.S. special operations troops wearing uniform insignia linked to the armed group of the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) known as the People’s Protection Units (YPG).
Some Christian Assyrians have reportedly accused the Obama administration-backed Kurdish Democratic Party (PYD) in northern Syria of imposing revisionist education curricula on the Christian Assyrians and Arabs that changes the Old Testament.
Contents: EU-Turkey migrant deal unravels over brinksmanship on both sides; More refugees now reaching Europe via Italy than via Greece; Italy rescues 800 migrants from Mediterranean Sea, many of them from Syria
Turkish warplanes have renewed airstrikes against Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) positions in northern Iraq, Reuters has learned from military sources.
The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) stands against “any terrorist group” that attacks Turkey, a Pentagon spokesperson indicated to Breitbart News.
Contents: London elects Sadiq Khan as mayor, the first Muslim mayor of a major Western city; Turkey’s Erdogan threatens EU: ‘We’ll go our own way, you go yours!’; Turkey says it will meet other EU requirements for lifting visa restrictions
Contents: With Turkey already in chaos, Erdogan forces PM Davutoglu to resign; Davutoglu’s resignation may complicate the EU-Turkey migrant deal; Syria and Russia continue ‘Grozny Model,’ killing women and children in Aleppo refugee camp
The U.S.-backed Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) in northern Syria is aligned with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), a terrorist organization, Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter told a Senate panel, echoing Turkey’s position on the relationship between the two groups.
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The Turkish parliament dissolved into shoves, punches, and even a few wrestling-style dives during a debate over proposed changes to the national constitution.
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On Tuesday, Germany’s Der Spiegel published a lengthy interview with Selahattin Demirtas, leader of the Kurd-aligned HDP Party of Turkey. Demirtas leveled some serious allegations against Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, saying the Kurds stood in the way of Erdogan’s creating an Islamic State-style (ISIS/ISIL) “Caliphate” of his own, and warning that Erdogan’s war against the Kurds could make the already-fearsome refugee crisis in Europe even worse.
A pro-government news outlet in Turkey has accused the U.S.-backed Democratic Union Party (PYD) of attacking other Kurdish groups in Syria and promoting communist ideology.
Turkey must use all measures at its disposal against the separatist communist group known as Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), including stripping its members of their citizenship, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said.
President Masoud Barzani of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in northern Iraq echoed Turkey’s position and said the terrorist group known as the Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK) and the U.S.-backed Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) in Syria “are exactly one and the same thing.”
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The ultimate decision of whether or not Kurds should be allowed to establish their own region in northern Syria lies with the Syrian people, according to the U.S. Department of State (DOS).
Contents: Istanbul terrorist attack is the latest in a string of attacks on Turkey; Israel participating in investigation of Istanbul attack
A suicide bomb attack struck a busy shopping district in Istanbul on Saturday, killing 5 and wounding 36 at the time of this writing. No terrorist group has claimed responsibility for the attack as of yet, but Turkish officials say the most likely suspects would be either Kurdish militants aligned with the separatist PKK party, or minions of the Islamic State.
Kurds will combine three Kurdish-led autonomous areas in northern Syria into a federal system, Kurdish officials have announced.
A militant group linked to the communist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which the United States considers a terrorist group, has claimed responsibility for carrying out the suicide car-bomb attack that killed 37 people in the Turkish capital.
Turkey bombed camps in Iraq belonging to Kurdish separatists of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) on Monday, after declaring the PKK complicit in last weekend’s devastating car bomb attack on Ankara.
The Turkish government has made increasingly confident declarations of responsibility for the deadly Ankara car bomb attack this weekend, which is now said to have killed at least 37 people.
A Turkish court has issued a gag order, banning Facebook, Twitter, and other social media outlets following a bombing in the capital, Ankara, which killed 37 people and injured dozens others.
Contents: Yet another terrorist bombing in Ankara Turkey kills 34; AQIM takes credit for armed terror attack on Ivory Coast beach resort
Turkish warplanes struck against Kurdish militant camps in northern Iraq on Monday after 37 people were killed in an Ankara car bombing that security officials said involved a female fighter of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). Sunday’s attack, tearing through
The death toll is mounting by the hour from a car bomb attack on a bus stop in Ankara, Turkey. As of 5:00 PM Eastern time on Sunday, there were at least 32 fatalities, plus 75 wounded.
The Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD), which controls large swaths of northern Syria, must refrain from supporting the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in Turkey, warned U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Anthony Blinken.
Most reporting on the Syrian Kurds depicts them as fairly unified behind their Democratic Union Party (PYD) and its People’s Protection Units (YPG) militia against the menace of the Islamic State. In truth, there are Kurdish opposition parties, and they have been complaining about the PYD using heavy-handed tactics to suppress them.
The Kurdish militia known as the People’s Protection Units (YPG) and rebel opposition forces are reportedly fighting each other in the small Syrian town of Marea, north of Aleppo.
Turkey has refused entreaties from the U.S., France, and Russia to halt its shelling of Kurdish positions in Syria. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan defended the artillery strikes as self-defense against a terrorist threat, continuing his effort to link the Syrian Kurdish militia to Kurdish separatists in Turkey and blame them for the Ankara bombing.