Solution process

The Turkish state also belongs to Kurds in the country, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said at an election rally in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır on June 3.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan once again struck a harsh tone against supporters of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) on April 8, saying supporters of the group will "end up in hell" and vowing to continue operations in Syria and Iraq.

A hundred militants belonging to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) were 'neutralized' in operations against the armed group across Turkey last week, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Dec.2.

The ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) is the government that has come closest to solving Turkey's Kurdish problem. It is also the government that has helped bring the prospect of an "independent Kurdish state" closest to reality, though obviously this is an unintended consequence of its mistaken policies.

Selahattin Demirtaş, the jailed co-leader of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), has penned a letter to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan after the latter accused him of being a "terrorist." 

In the letter publicized by his lawyers on June 10, Demirtaş stated that with his comments, Erdoğan had "proven his influence" over the case the HDP is being tried in.

A delegation of the People's Democratic Party (HDP) in the Turkish parliament is expected to meet Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ on April 3 to discuss the decision by jailed HDP co-chairman Selahattin Demirtaş to go on hunger strike, together with another MP, Abdullah Zeydan, in protest at prison conditions, HDP deputy Sırrı Süreyya Önder said in an interview with Fox TV Turkey on March 31.

A prosecutor who called on National Intelligence Agency (MİT) Chief Hakan Fidan to provide testimony in 2012 has been arrested on charges of links to the Fethullahist Terrorist Organization (FETÖ), which is widely believed to have masterminded the July 2016 failed coup attempt. 

Representatives of Kurdish groups across the Middle East have met in Moscow on Feb. 15 to attend a conference on Kurds and their future. 

The Turkish army destroyed 11 outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) positions in airstrikes against the terrorist group in northern Iraq, the Turkish military said late on Jan. 6.

According to a statement issued by the Turkish General Staff, fighter jets carried out the airstrikes in the Qandil region of northern Iraq on Jan. 6 between 6:58 and 7:55 p.m. (3:58 and 4:55 p.m. GMT).

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Dec. 1 discussed negotiations between Ankara and Brussels on the migrant crisis, as well as the latest developments in the Cypriot peace process, Turkish presidential sources have stated.