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Turkey?s government cannot take further steps in the peace process unless the outlawed Kurdistan Workers? Party (PKK) lays down its arms and takes concrete steps to foster peace, President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has said.

Doğan Media Group’s Publishing Principles Committee has reaffirmed its commitment to Turkey’s Kurdish peace process by "continuing its objective journalism while respecting public order."

Turkey will allow Iraqi Kurdish fighters to cross into Syria to fight Islamic State militants, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Monday.

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United States delivers weapons to Kurds in Syria

WASHINGTON -- The United States has announced it had air-dropped arms to rebels battling the Islamic State in the northern Syrian town of Kobani near the border with Turkey.

This is the first public admission that the Unites States is supplying the rebels with arms.

Turkey is planning to expel a group of Syrian Kurds who fled the besieged town of Kobane but were then detained for over a week on suspicion of having links to rebel Kurdish groups, a Turkish lawmaker says

Air strikes carried out by the US-led coalition have successfully driven Sunni insurgents from Islamic State (IS) from most of Kobane, a town in the north of Syria.

There are prospects that the town could be liberated soon, since there are only two pockets of resistance in the Kobane's east, sources from the Kurdish fighter's command in Kobane told the BBC.

US-led airstrikes have successfully pushed back ISIL insurgents from parts of Kobane, a Kurdish official said

Tension surrounding the situation in Kobane, which has been under siege from ISIL jihadists for over a month, and the government-led Kurdish peace bid is rising on a daily basis

ISIL militants enslaved and sold Yazidi women and children, a magazine purportedly published by the extremists claimed

This has been a terrible week for Turkey. Riots hit dozens of cities, mostly in the predominantly Kurdish southeast, leading to more than 30 deaths.