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People Daily (Free subscription) | 20/11/2008
Four members of the banned Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) and two Turkish soldiers were killed in a clash in southeastern Turkey on Wednesday, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported. The heavy clash took place between the Turkish security forces and the PKK rebels in Kayacik village of Lice town of Diyarbakir province Wednesday evening, said the report. It added that two soldiers of the security...
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People Daily (Free subscription) | 20/11/2008
Turkish General Staff said on Wednesday that one militant of the banned Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) was killed in a clash in southeastern Turkey. The clash between the Turkish security forces and the PKK rebels occurred in a mountainous area in Guclukonak town of Sirnal province on Tuesday, the General Staff said in a statement published on its website. The statement said that security forces had...
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Fergie's Tech Blog (Free subscription) | 20/11/2008
Via Today's Zaman . A man taken into custody on suspicion of theft last week has admitted that he is a hacker working for the terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), police investigators said Wednesday. A police search of a computer belonging to R.Ç., 20, who was stopped in Diyarbakır on suspicion of theft, has revealed files containing classified information belonging to institutions including the...
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Moldova.org (Free subscription) | 19/11/2008
Iraq, Turkey and the United States have banded together to try to end attacks on Turkey by Kurdish rebels operating from Iraq, officials say. Representatives of the three countries have formed a committee working on how best to stop raids by members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, Iraqi officials told CNN Wednesday.Iraqi government spokesman Ali Dabbagh said the PKK, which has been branded...
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Times of the Internet (Free subscription) | 19/11/2008
BAGHDAD, Nov. 19 (UPI) -- Iraq, Turkey and the United States have banded together to try to end attacks on Turkey by Kurdish rebels operating from Iraq, officials say. Representatives of the three countries have formed a committee working on how best to stop raids by members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, Iraqi officials told CNN Wednesday. Iraqi government spokesman Ali Dabbagh said the...
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Indybay newswire (Free subscription) | 19/11/2008
The fighting occurred between soldiers on patrol and separatist fighters from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), in a rural area of Agri province, the Anatolia news agency quoted a local governor as saying on Wednesday.
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Panarmenian (Free subscription) | 15/11/2008
Six Kurdish teenagers from Diyarbakir town, Turkey, can stand trial for allegedly supporting the outlawed Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK). If found guilty, they can face up to 20 years in prison.“The group of teenagers was detained during a rally with participation of Prime Minister Erdogan. They burnt a Turkish flag, set cars to fire and threw Molotov cocktails at the guards.In August, 5 Kurdish teenagers...
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People Daily (Free subscription) | 20/11/2008
One Turkish officer was killed and five soldiers were wounded in a clash with outlawed Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK)in eastern Turkey on Wednesday, a high-ranking official said. Agri Governor Mehmet Cetin said in a statement that the clash between Turkish security forces and PKK took place in Sinet Yayla area near Kagizman border in Agri province Wednesday afternoon, leaving one Turkish major dead and...
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ArabianBusiness.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
... risks being attacked by neighbouring states, referring to Turkey's bombing of Turkish Kurdish PKK rebels in their mountain hideaways of northern Iraq."Today, Iraq is the target of bombing from abroad but it is limited because the [US-led] coalition represents a dissuasion force," he said."If it not there any more, the whole country risks being the target of shooting, even [the southern port of]...
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Hindu (Free subscription) | yesterday
... Centre, besides exposing the misrule of the Marxist party in the State,” IUML district president P.K.K. Bava said.Two zones The padayatra, which would be held in two zones — south zone and north zone — would be inaugurated by IUML State general secretary P.K. Kunhalikutty at Thamarassery and Balussery respectively on November 24. The two padayatras would pass through all the constituencies...
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ArabianBusiness.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
... and that the blast appeared to have been caused by sabotage.Separatist Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) rebels have claimed responsibility in the past for similar attacks on pipelines in eastern Turkey.The PKK, regarded as a terrorist organisation by the United States and European Union as well as Turkey, took up arms against the Turkish state in 1984 with the aim of carving out an ethnic homeland...
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WOK3 (Free subscription) | yesterday
... the U.S. does leave, most likely because they would like to keep bombing the Kurdish rebels, the PKK, in Northern Iraq. It would seem that no matter what we do, we are going to be doing the wrong thing. But that was sort of how this all started, invading a country that had no real connections to the 9/11 attacks, and as it would not-so-shockingly would turn out, had no viable weapons of mass destruction....
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 19/11/2008
Baghdad - Iraq and Turkey agreed on Wednesday to set up a joint committee to combat Kurdish separatists in northern Iraq, Iraqi officials said. Turkey has launched raids this year inside Iraqi territory to attack the Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK), whi...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 20/11/2008
... clash in the Lice region of Diyarbakir province, two soldiers and four Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) rebels were killed and four soldiers wounded. An army major was killed and five wounded in the second clash in the eastern Turkish province of Agri. Ankara blames the separatist PKK for the deaths of more than 35,000 people since the early 1980s when the PKK began its fight for independence or autonomy...
