Communist parties in Turkey

The National Intelligence Organization (MİT) has "neutralized" a high-ranking terrorist of the YPG/YPJ, the so-called women's unit of the PKK terrorist organization, in an operation conducted in Qamishli in northern Syria.

Supreme Election Council (YSK) head Ahmet Yener has declared that 36 political parties have been granted approval to participate in the upcoming local elections scheduled for March 31.

Police have arrested a Turkish citizen, an ethnic Kurd, wanted for membership in a terrorist organization.

The 41-year-old had gone to the police's aliens' division in Athens to renew his asylum request papers; when the officer entered his name an INTERPOL Red Notice appeared, asking for his arrest.

A suspect was detained in Istanbul during an operation after a bomb attack on an office of the Turkey Youth Foundation (TÜGVA) in the district of Gaziosmanpaşa, Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu said on April 26.

Turkey has slammed Greece for refusing to extradite a member of the Turkish outlawed leftist group Turkish Communist Party/Marxist-Leninist (TKP/ML).

A father in the eastern province of Tunceli who ended his hunger strike after 90 days, demanding the return of the remains of his dead son, has been taken to hospital in Istanbul. 

Kemal Gün ended his hunger strike after finally receiving his son's bones on May 26.

The Turkish military has launched a security operation to "neutralize" 400 outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants in the eastern province of Tunceli.

Turkish authorities use the word "neutralized" in their statements to imply the militants in question were either killed, incapacitated or captured.

Sixteen militants from the outlawed Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C) have been "neutralized" in anti-terror operations in the eastern province of Tunceli since April 2016, according to the military.

The Turkish Supreme Court of Appeals on Nov. 2 upheld a court ruling convicting Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) co-chair Figen Yüksekdağ on charges of "terror propaganda" after she attended and delivered a speech at the funeral of Marxist-Leninist Communist Party (MLKP) militant Yasemin Çiftçi in 2012.

A former police chief and interior minister, Mehmet Ağar, has told a parliamentary commission investigating the July 15 coup attempt that all illegal organizations, like the Gülenist network, have had links with foreign intelligence services.