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The support from the Kurdish Islamist party Hüda-Par for the shift to an executive presidential system in Turkey's April 16 referendum was likely a small but significant factor behind the final narrow "Yes" result.

Many observers assume that Turkey's Kurdish question is limited to the war between the state and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). For over three decades that conflict has defined the issue, causing the deaths of over 40,000 people.

A car bomb exploded near a Syrian army checkpoint in the Sayeda Zeinab area south of Damascus on April 25, Lebanese group Hezbollah's Al Manar television reported. 

After two months of intense inner-city fights and bombardments, Ankara has decided to take steps that will make life a little easier in Turkey's southeast - steps that are one too many: 303 of them, to be precise. You could have named the master plan after the popular song "50 Ways to Leave your Lover" and that could have been easier.

Two suspects have been detained after two members of Islamist and pro-Kurdish Free Cause Party (Hüda-Par) were killed on May 29 in Turkey's southeastern ??rnak province, local officials have said.

Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu has greeted around 100,000 people who protested French magazine Charlie Hebdo in Diyarbak?r, while also cheering for Hizbullah.

Around 100,000 people have protested the French magazine Charlie Hebdo in Diyarbak?r, a Kurdish-majority city in Turkey's southeast, cheering for Turkish Hizbullah.

The Lovers of the Prophet Platform organized the two-hour long Jan. 24 protest at the central ?stasyon Square with the participation of thousands of demonstrators coming from nearby towns, Do?an News Agency reported. 

Peoples? Democratic Party (HDP) co-chair Selahattin Demirta? has slammed the fact that the authorities have yet to identify any suspects regarding the seven recent killings in the restive town of Cizre in the southeastern province of ??rnak, which has been roiled by protests for the past month.

The Cizre district in the southeastern province of ??rnak has witnessed a series of deadly clashes over the past month, threatening the ongoing Kurdish peace process and becoming a point of bitter dispute between President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an and Peoples? Democratic Party (HDP) co-chair Selahattin Demirta?.

Opposition Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) deputy group leader Oktay Vural has accused the government of failing to exert control in the southeast amid recent unrest.

Vural said de facto autonomy had been announced in the southeastern part of the country and that the government had failed to maintain control over the region.