Kurdistan

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) is earning about $1 million a day from black market oil sales, the United States has said, vowing to impose harsh sanctions on the purchasers of the oil, “including middlemen from Turkey.”

Three members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) were killed by security forces on Oct. 23 in the eastern Turkish province of Kars.

Clashes erupted when four militants reportedly attacked a hydroelectric power station in the Kağızman district.

The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in northern Iraq has decided to send 200 Peshmerga fighters with heavy weapons to Kobane, as a first step after Turkey announced that it would allow Kurdish forces to travel to Syria in order to fight against Islamist jihadists.

Protesters covering their faces in Turkey will be arrested, and using Molotov cocktails will be considered equal to bombing, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has announced.

"For every burned or damaged car I will send 10 armored vehicles with tear gas and water cannons against the vandals," local media quoted Davutoglu as saying Tuesday.

A wounded man who was treated in Turkey last week and identified as an ISIL member was discovered to be a member of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party

CHP leader has said the government’s incapability with its intelligence body rendered it dependent on a call by Abdullah Öcalan, the jailed leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), to ease violence on streets.

The parliament of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in northern Iraq voted to formally recognize the cantons established by the Democratic Union Party (PYD) in Syria’s Rojava region on Oct. 15.

Two outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) members who were brought to Turkey for hospital treatment were identified through the facial recognition system set up at the Turkey-Syria border.

Kurdish leader Ahmet Türk fears an emotional break, a disengagement of the Kurdish youth. He issued a strong warning the other day:

Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) leader Masoud Barzani has said Turkey sent arms to the Kurdish government in northern Iraq but requested that this not be made public.