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The outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) targeted a military base with two mortar attacks in southeastern Turkey, the Turkish general staff said in a statement on June 7.

The PKK attacked the Da?l?ca military base close to the Iraqi border in Hakkari province at around 12.35 p.m. local time (10.35 GMT) on June 6, the statement said, adding that there were no casualties.

A leading figure in the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) has stunned many by saying his party, which focuses on the Kurdish issue, could even do a deal with the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) in order to resume the stalled peace process after the June 7 parliamentary election.

Foreign Affairs Minister Bogdan Aurescu met European Court of Human Rights President Dean Spielmann on Thursday in Strasbourg; among other topics, they discussed the long-term reform of the ECHR.

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Kurdish problem-focused Peoples? Democratic Party (HDP) deputy S?rr? Süreyya Önder has said his party represents a historic chance in the upcoming general elections for the country to live together in harmony. 

Political party organizations and citizens in Anatolia are apathetic towards pre-election campaigns, President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has said. 

?Both party organizations and citizens in Anatolia are apathetic, in silence. We don?t know what will be result of this apathy,? Erdo?an said late May 21 speaking in a televised interview. 

Two people, including a soldier, were kidnapped in southeast Turkey on May 18 by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).

The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) is isolating the imprisoned leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers? Party (PKK), Abdullah Öcalan, putting the peace process at grave risk, according to a delegation that recently applied to visit Öcalan.

A group of politicians known as the ??mral? delegation? headed to the Kandil mountains in northern Iraq early May 18 to meet with senior leaders from the outlawed Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK), as their repeated demands to meet with the PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan, imprisoned in ?mral? island, have been rejected since April 5.

An Istanbul court that acquitted 26 people detained during the Gezi Park protests in the summer of 2013 has stated in its reasoned ruling that people do not have to get official permission for peaceful demonstrations, and demonstrations held without permission are not necessarily violent. 

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has fined Turkey in two separate cases for lack of efficient investigation into a man's death and ill-treatment of a man under police detention.