site.news_by_theme Kurds

Turkish forces crossed into Iraq to pursue Kurdish militants after dozens were killed in the deadliest attacks for years, as protesters assailed offices of the main pro-Kurdish party in a night of nationalist-tinged violence.

• 09 сентября 2015, 15:31

Turkey's almost month-long campaign of air strikes against the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in the Turkish southeast and northern Iraq will weaken but cannot destroy the Kurdish militant group.

• 21 августа 2015, 15:10

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed that Turkey would press on with a campaign against Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants "until not one terrorist remains".

• 12 августа 2015, 11:40

Turkey's Kurdish political leader Selahattin Demirtas urged the world to denounce Ankara's new "unjust war" on rebel Kurds and asked the EU to push clearly for a truce.

• 07 августа 2015, 15:10

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier urged Turkey not to abandon the Kurdish peace process despite an upsurge in tension and violence.

• 01 августа 2015, 12:22

NATO strongly backed Turkey's fight against Islamic State militants in Syria at emergency talks.

• 29 июля 2015, 15:27

Turkey's foreign minister said that Kurdish rebels "never respected" the peace process with Ankara, with a ceasefire now in tatters after a series of attacks and cross-border offensives.

• 28 июля 2015, 12:13

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that Turkey will never allow the establishment of a Kurdish state in Syria after major gains by Kurdish fighters

• 27 июня 2015, 17:15

Turkish President Recep accused the main Kurdish party in Syria of not wanting Kurdish peshmerga fighters from Iraq to help it fight Islamic State jihadists

• 27 октября 2014, 15:28

US President Barack Obama called his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan and they pledged to step up the fight against the Islamic State group in Syria.

• 20 октября 2014, 12:29

A Kurdish woman fighter is leading the battle against Islamic State jihadists in the Syrian battleground town of Kobane.

• 13 октября 2014, 11:57

Briyar Kamal, a 24-year-old Kurdish student, but instead of relaxing during his summer holiday he is fighting jihadists who have overrun swathes of Iraq.

• 28 августа 2014, 14:46

Iraq's Kurdish region claimed disputed northern oilfields on Friday in another blow to efforts to forge a united front against a jihadist-led onslaught, as twin bombings killed 28 people.

• 12 июля 2014, 12:50

Turkish soldiers on Wednesday fired tear gas and water cannon at Kurds protesting plans to build military barracks in the southeast of the country.

• 04 июня 2014, 23:03

Kurdish rebels are due to begin their much-anticipated withdrawal from Turkey into their stronghold in northern Iraq on Wednesday, a major step towards ending a decades-long conflict that has left tens of thousands dead.

• 08 мая 2013, 18:48

Russia will host a top opponent of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Wednesday hoping to find common ground with one of the most scathing critics of its refusal to turn against the Damascus regime.

• 12 июля 2012, 12:34