Irregular military

Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdağ on Feb. 14 said the United States should know that it “cannot conceal the terrorism” of the People’s Protection Units (YPG) and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) by changing its name.

A total of 73 people were detained on Feb. 14 as part of raids targeting the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) across Turkey, according to a police source.

Curfews were imposed in dozens of villages and towns in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır on Feb. 14, ahead of an anticipated new operation against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).

An official report prepared by U.S. National Security Director Daniel Coats and presented to the U.S. Congress on Feb. 13 defined the People’s Protection Units (YPG) as the Syrian wing of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), acknowledging that it is searching for autonomy.

Turkey’s Defense Minister Nurettin Canikli on Feb. 13 attended a ministerial meeting in Rome of the global coalition against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

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.

An Iraqi interior ministry official said Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) head Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is alive and being treated at a field hospital in Syria after being wounded in an air strike.

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.

The idea has been floated these last days by Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic.

"If we were to seek compensation for the Homeland War (1990s war in Croatia), the Serbs would do it for the Second World War, we would do it for the First World War, and the Serbs would then do it for the Battle of Kosovo," Matic told N1 broadcaster.

Al-Qaeda’s global network remains “remarkably resilient,” posing more of a threat in some regions than Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), U.N. sanctions monitors said in a report seen by AFP on Feb. 7.