Zübeyir Aydar

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Feb. 12 called on the EU and other European countries to take a "principled and honorable" stand against terrorism.

Erdoğan spoke at a meeting in Turkey's southeastern province of Kahramanmaras where he said no treacherous activities against Turkey would succeed either on the field or at the table.

Turkey has strongly condemned a decision by a Belgian court to reject a request by the federal prosecutor's office to forward a case on 36 people affiliated with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) to a criminal court.

A Brussels court has adjourned for three months the hearing of 33 alleged outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) members who were taken into custody in 2010.        

The hearing on Sept. 20 was closed to the press, a judicial source said on condition of anonymity due to restrictions on speaking to the media.        

It is difficult, I am aware, to talk about civilian resolution endeavors when urban wars are fought against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and when soldier funerals are happening in hometowns. There are signs from the PKK front concerning the start of the resolution process. The state has not started evaluating this yet.

The Belgian government has repeatedly ignored Turkish requests to extradite suspects wanted for terrorism offenses, a source at the Turkish Justice Ministry said March 23.

After meetings with the leaders of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers? Party?s (PKK) European branch in the Belgian capital, Peoples? Democratic Party (HDP) co-chair Selahattin Demirta? has said the address to solve the Kurdish peace process was the Turkish capital rather than Brussels. 

A senior figure from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) has called on the United States to intervene in the Kurdish peace process, which has come to a halt due to PKK attacks on Turkish security forces and the Turkish government's airstrikes on PKK base camps in northern Iraq. 

The co-chair of Turkey's Kurdish issue-focused Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) is set to make an unscheduled trip to Brussels on Aug. 5, his party said, amid reports he will meet representatives of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).

Selahattin Demirta? of the HDP postponed his scheduled program in Ankara on Aug. 5, daily Hürriyet and AFP reported. 

Zübeyir Aydar, a leading figure in the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) based in Brussels, has claimed that the PKK is neither a separatist nor a nationalist organization, while also stressing that the group fully supports the jailed PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan's stance in the ongoing peace process.

Zübeyir Aydar, a leading outlawed Kurdistan Workers? Party (PKK) figure based in Brussels, has challenged the Turkish government on claims that Kurds are creating provocations in the southeast, describing Ankara's lack of steps in the peace process as a "provocation."