Kurdistan Communities Union

Around 320 suspects, including lawyers, politicians and students, were detained and 41 of them were arrested during country-wide anti-terror operations against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in the three days before March 16, according to data gathered by Anadolu Agency.

The satellite broadcast of IMC TV was blacked out on Feb. 24, following a public prosecutor's demand that its frequency be cut for "making terror organization propaganda."   

"There has been an interruption in the satellite broadcast of IMC TV. The reason has not been clarified yet," the small leftist station said in a tweet.

A Turkish court has acquitted an academic who faced seven years in jail for "terror propaganda" over an exam question about two writings by Abdullah Öcalan, the jailed leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). 

An academic at Ankara University's Faculty of Political Science faces seven years in jail for "terror propaganda" over an exam question asking students to compare two writings by Abdullah Öcalan the jailed leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). 

A cabinet decision designating locations for 39 new fortified military installations has gone into force, with a majority of new security posts to be built in southeastern Turkey, which is currently scene to violent clashes between the security forces and outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants.

Considering the ongoing clashes between the security forces and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in southeastern Turkey, the Kurdish problem-focused Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) has said ending the isolation of jailed PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan is an "urgent item on the agenda."

The co-mayor of Turkey's eastern province of Van, Bekir Kaya, was sentenced to 15 years in prison on Jan. 4 on charges of "being a member of terrorist organization," along with 12 other defendants jailed in the Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK) case.

The 13 defendants were all given jail terms between seven and 15 years.

Solving the Kurdish issue is not easy. Wisdom and moderation call for a peaceful solution.  

From this general viewpoint, the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) says the state should settle with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) to bring an end to bloodshed. 

This has been tried already.

A meeting of the Democratic Society Congress (DTK) in Diyarbak?r called for the establishment of a "democratic autonomy."

This is not a demand in a democratic country coming from a segment that has faith in democracy, asking for Western-style autonomy. 

Let me say this at the outset: The only factor that's strengthening in the Middle East earthquake is the Kurdish movement. 

There, while Masoud Barzani is giving signals of independence, the Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK) is escalating terror to transform the southeast into a "Rojava."