Kurdistan Workers' Party

Turkish media have welcomed Kosovo's decision to ban a musical event called "Freedom to Kurdistan", planned to take place in Pristina on Friday, claiming it aimed to spread propaganda in favour of terrorist organizations that are at war with Turkey.

Some 38,470 Fethullahist Terror Organization (FETÖ), 10,079 Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), and 1,354 Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) members have been remanded or convicted in Turkey, Turkish justice minister Abdulhamit Gül said on Feb 10.

Turkish military aircraft hit 19 targets at Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in Seberan Iraq on Monday, Reuters reported, citing the Turkish Air Force. PKK hideouts, warehouses, and positions of fire are being destroyed, believed to be preparing an attack on the Turkish border.

Turkey launched a massive operation against the Kurds ten days ago. It is called "Olive Branch".

Members of the People's Self-Defense Force (YPG), which according to Ankara are linked to the forbidden Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), have attacked a Turkish military convoy in the northern Syrian town of Idlib, daily Sabah reports.

Croatia's Constitutional Court is considering an appeal about the Turkish Kurdish activist Nurettin Oral, who wishes to avoid extradition from Croatia to Turkey, his lawyer confirmed to BIRN.

Lawyer Sandra Drazic Karalic confirmed that the Constitutional Court had started to work on the case, which it received on January 15.

Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said that if anyone supports the Kurds in the Syrian enclave of Afrin, they will become a target of the Turkish armed forces.

"Any support given to terrorists will become our target," CNTV quoted Yildiram's response to a journalist's question what action Ankara would take if Washington continued to supply the Kurdish formations in Syria.

Turkish military said on Jan. 20 it retaliated against the Democratic Uinion Party/ Kurdistan Workers' Party [PYD/PKK] firings from Syria's Afrin on Jan. 19-20, destroying shelters, hideouts. 

A Croatian NGO, the Centre for Peace Studies, CMS, on Friday said that the European Court of Human Right sent an inquiry to Croatia on Thursday, seeking an explanation on the case of a Turkish Kurd named Nurretin Oral.

The Turkish Army (TSK) on Jan. 18 ordered its troops on the Syrian border in southern Turkey to increase security measures to the "highest level" ahead of a possible military operation into Afrin, Hurriyet reported.

Ankara expects NATO to take an official stance on the creation of a 'terrorist army' along the Turkish border in Syria, President Erdogan said. He was referring to the planned 30,000-strong US-backed mostly Kurdish force.