Operation Northern Iraq

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu has tried to ease Iraqi Kurds? concerns by stressing the Turkish military?s operations in northern Iraq were specifically targeting the outlawed Kurdistan Workers? Party (PKK) and not all Kurds.  

The outlawed Kurdistan Workers? Party (PKK) has threatened to attack dam construction sites in Turkey?s mainly Kurdish southeast provinces on the grounds that Ankara has violated a cease-fire by building army posts, while one person died and two were wounded in fresh clashes in the northeastern province of Ardahan. 

The HDP has announced a call by the jailed leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) to hold a congress in spring to discuss disarmament in Turkey

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.

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.

Syrian Kurds have received a 'symbolic' amount of military aid from KRG that is meant for Kobane

The fall of Mosul into the hands of Islamist militants, led by the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL), has the potential to ignite a region-wide war, with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) announcing that its militants are ready to fight the Islamists together with the peshmerga.

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.