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Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli has issued a warning particularly addressed to Kurdish citizens, asking them not be deceived by a “plot aiming to annul the Lausanne Treaty,” referring to the historic treaty that is widely acclaimed as the basis of the independence and unitary structure of the Turkish state.

China’s ruling Communist Party will step up ideological education of officials to prevent them from aping Western moral standards and strengthen their faith in communism to help in the fight against pervasive corruption, state media said.

Reports on a young Gezi protester, who became publicly known as “the girl with the red foulard,” which states that she joined the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), have been used as evidence by the prosecutor in her trial.

Not more than five years ago, Selahattin Demirtaş was only a name familiar among human rights circles in Turkey. As a young lawyer, he assumed leadership of Turkey’s Human Rights Association’s (İHD) Diyarbakır branch in 2006. Then, after joining the Kurdish problem-focused Peace and Democracy Party (PKK), Demirtaş was elected as its co-chairman in 2010.

Militants of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) will start the second phase of their withdrawal from Turkey after the legal amendments from the Kurdish peace process package are enforced.

The PKK is expected to restart its withdrawal, which has been at a standstill since late 2013, this fall as soon as the government-led package is legally enforced.

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has launched a charm offensive aimed at winning the confidence of Kurdish voters after being installed on July 1 as the ruling party’s presidential candidate.

Militants from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) allegedly kidnapped seven villagers in a rural area of the southeastern province of Şırnak late on June 22.

Vice Prime Minister and Social Democratic Party (PSD) executive president Liviu Dragnea on Wednesday welcomed at the party's headquarters a delegation of the Communist Party of China (CPC) led by Central Committee's Political Bureau member Sun Zheng Cai.

Turkish security forces staged an operation in the Şemdinli district of Hakkari, which included the use of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), after a truck that was carrying milk to Aktütün military base was set alight by militants of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ party (PKK) on June 15.

A heavy penal court in Turkish capital Ankara has released non-arrest assurances for dozens of senior figures involved with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).

The court order applies to key PKK leaders currently living abroad, including Zübeyir Aydar and Remzi Kartal, on the condition of their return to Turkey within three months.