Abdullah Öcalan

Turkey's Foreign Ministry on Sunday slammed a decision by Greek Justice Minister Stavros Kontonis to block the extradition of journalist Turgut Kaya, despite a court ruling clearing the process in early June.

"This reveals once again that the traditional sentiments of the Greek political power against Turkey have not changed," ministry spokesman Hami Aksoy said in a statement. 

Turkey has warned Canada over Ontario-made weapons recently seized during an anti-Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) operation, state-run news service Anadolu Agency reported on July 24.

When Gülizar Taşdemir (R) was stopped in Istanbul, the authorities seized two mobile phones, documents relating to the PKK and photographs of her with PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan (L), who is serving a life sentence following his capture in 1999, Anadolu Agency reported.

An Istanbul court on April 2 issued an arrest warrant and a red notice for exiled former daily Cumhuriyet editor-in-chief Can Dündar in a case involving the much-publicized National Intelligence Organization (MİT) trucks that allegedly carried weapons to Syria in 2014. 

The U.S. delivered Abdullah Öcalan, the imprisoned leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), to Turkey in 1999 in order to gain control of the group, former Chief of Staff Gen. İlker Başbuğ has claimed, stressing that this is his “personal opinion.”

Forty-five PKK terrorists were killed, 19 terrorists were captured in nationwide operations in Turkey in the past week, interior ministry said Monday, Daily Sabahreported.

Security forces, including special operations squads from gendarmerie, police and gendarmerie commando units carried out a total of 455 anti-terror operations throughout the country.

An air operation was conducted against the Zap and Avasin regions in northern Iraq targeting arms and ammunition depots and weapon emplacements of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) on Sept. 26, the Turkish military has stated.

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.

At least four PKK terrorists were killed in airstrikes in northern Iraq, weapon emplacements, hideouts and ammunition depots belonging to the terrorists have been destroyed in airstrikes, the Turkish military said in a statement early Tuesday, Daily Sabah reported.

The Turkish Foreign Ministry summoned the German ambassador in Ankara on Sept. 17, over a pro-PKK (outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party) event held in the city of Cologne.