Tag: Kurdistan Workers’ Party

Swiss authorities open inquiry into weekend rally vs Turkish President Erdogan

GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — Swiss authorities have opened an investigation into a weekend rally against Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, which Ankara dubbed a “terrorist gathering,” Switzerland’s ATS news agency reported Monday. During Saturday’s demonstration in the capital Bern, organized by Kurdish groups, some people brandished a banner showing a gun pointing at Erdogan alongside the words “Kill Erdogan.” Turkey summoned the Swiss ambassador on Sunday to protest at the rally, claiming it was organized […]

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Turkey detains Kurds, hits militants after twin blasts

by Raziye Akkoc with Ezzedine Said in Istanbul Agence France Presse ANKARA, Turkey (AFP) – Turkey detained over 200 people including dozens of officials from pro-Kurdish parties and struck Kurdish militants in Iraq Monday in response to this weekend’s twin bombings claimed by a radical Kurd separatist group. The toll from Saturday’s attacks near an Istanbul football stadium and an adjacent park rose to 44 Monday, Health Minister Recep Akdag said. Most of the dead were police […]

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Turkey ousts 28 mayors

Istanbul, Turkey—Turkey on Sunday removed 28 mayors accused of links to Kurdish militants or United States-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, using emergency powers to replace them with state-appointed trustees in a move that sparked accusations of trampling on democracy. The mayors have been suspended from their posts on suspicion of links to the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) which is waging a deadly insurgency in the southeast, or Gulen, who is blamed for the July 15 failed […]

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Three soldiers killed by roadside bomb in Turkey: sources

DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (AFP) — Three Turkish soldiers were killed and others wounded Friday by a roadside bomb in Tunceli in the Kurdish majority southeast of the country, medical and military sources told AFP. The explosion was caused by a home-made bomb on the side of a road between Tunceli and Elazig in a region caught up in bloody reprisals between the army and rebels from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). © 1994-2016 Agence France-Presse

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Turkey blames Syrian Kurdish fighters for Ankara attack

ANKARA, Turkey (AFP) — Turkey on Thursday blamed Kurdish militants based inside the country and in Syria for a car bombing targeting a military convoy in Ankara that killed 28 people and risked a new escalation of the Syrian conflict. The massive blast struck five buses carrying military service personnel when they stopped at a traffic light in the center of the capital on Wednesday evening. It was the latest in a string of deadly strikes that […]

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Car bomb kills at least 28 in Ankara

ANKARA, Turkey (CCTV/Reuters) — A car bomb attack killed at least 28 people in the Turkish capital of Ankara on Wednesday night. The explosion, which targeted an army convoy, also injured at least 61 people, Turkey’s Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus said at a press conference after the attack. A local resident named Noury was only 300 meters away from the explosion site when the bomb went off, having driven past just 20 seconds earlier. […]

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