Kurdish people

The debate on children leaving their homes to join the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) is still very much alive in Turkey.

Three children that were allegedly being brought to the camps of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) were captured during a police raid in the eastern province of Hakkari’s Yüksekova district June 5 amid a row over children being “abducted” by the organization.

Turkey’s main opposition party has submitted a motion to launch a parliamentary investigation over the government’s decision to commence the shipment of Kurdish oil to world markets.

KRG Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani says Turkey and his administration have signed a 50-year deal to export Kurdish oil, but the accord does not mean the divison of the country

Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli accused both the government and the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) of “incompetence” against the rising activity of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), suggesting that Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was going soft as he needs the support of the PKK and its jailed leader for his presidential ambitions.

I have taken a look at the pro-government media. They are extremely happy with the balance sheet of “the first anniversary of Gezi.” The state has demonstrated its power. The incidents that erupted in a few places were suppressed.

How many people did it take for “the police of the powerful” to suppress these incidents? They are boasting about it, big time.

A group that has been staging a sit-in protest in front of the Diyarbakır Municipality to demand that the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) release their children, who recently joined the PKK, are continuing their protest across the road, following a scuffle with workers at the municipality.

Turkey has insisted that the export of Kurdish Iraqi oil to the world is Iraq’s internal business, downplaying opposition from Baghdad, which has accused Turkey of worsening the row over who controls Iraq’s resources.

Baghdad vents its fury at Ankara for its role in exporting Kurdish oil to the world amid KRG threats to secede from the rest of Iraq Turkey has been “driven by greed” in an escalating row over oil pumped from Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region and shipped overseas, Baghdad’s top energy official has said, after northern Iraqi leader Masoud Barzani reportedly threatened to consider s

Turkish security forces have removed roadblocks that were installed by supporters of the outlawed Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK) in a rural area of Diyarbakır to protest the construction of police stations.

The uncertainty about the kids reportedly abducted by the PKK adds to the political tensions.