Organizations designated as terrorist

Turkey's air force carried out airstrikes on the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) bases in northern Iraq on two separate operations on March 18 and March 19, the military said.

In a statement on its website, the Turkish General Staff said 20 F-16 and F-4 jets bombed positions in the Sinat, Haftanin and Gara regions on March 18 night.        

Turkish President Tayyip Erdo?an has said on March 16 that the "iron fist of the state in a velvet glove" would crush the heads of the terrorists. He was talking about the ongoing security operations against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).

One police officer was killed early on March 15 in clashes with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in the Ba?lar district of the southeastern province of Diyarbak?r, which has been subjected to a new curfew. 

Three outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants were also killed.

Sometimes finding excuses is easier than finding answers.

A Turkish soldier succumbed to his wounds on March 10 after sustaining injuries in an outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) attack in southeastern Diyarbak?r's Sur district last month. 

The soldier was wounded in an armed attack by PKK militants during an anti-terror operation in Sur on Feb. 18. He was being treated at the Gülhane Military Academy (GATA) in Ankara when he died. 

One soldier was killed on Feb. 25 during clashes with outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants in the Sur district of the southeastern province of Diyarbak?r.

PKK militants opened fire on security forces with sharpshooters, killing one non-commissioned officer and wounding two other soldiers.

The number of suspects detained over the Ankara car bomb attack has risen to 20 on Feb. 19, according to sources from the Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor's Office.

Police have conducted operations in Ankara, Adana, Bolu, Tekirda?, ?zmir, Istanbul, Diyarbak?r and Gaziantep provinces and detained a total of 20 suspects following the deadly attack.

The Kurdish-backed Syria Democratic Forces have taken control of around 70 percent of Tal Rifaat, a town between Aleppo city and Azaz near the Turkish border, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights conflict monitor said on Feb. 15. 

A police officer has succumbed to his wounds sustained eight days ago in an outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) attack in Turkey's southeastern ??rnak province. 

The officer, 24-year-old Tayfun Yüce, was wounded on Feb. 1 as PKK militants detonated an improvised explosive device during the passage of an armored police vehicle on the Ataken neighborhood of ??rnak's ?dil district. 

In the southeast of Turkey, it is very difficult to do journalism and report from the regions where curfews have been imposed. Reporters do not have free access to the front lines of the barricades and ditches; they also do not have the means to cross to the other side.