Kurdish–Turkish conflict

As many as 54 suspects have been detained across Turkey in multiple anti-terror police operations against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), amid an upsurge in violence against security forces.

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. 

The district governor of Yüksekova district of Hakkari has shared security footages of an outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) attack to the District Police Directorate.

Qatar has broken ranks with the Arab League to give close ally Turkey its full support for air strikes in northern Iraq, according to an official foreign ministry statement.
 
On August 4, the Arab League condemned Turkey's actions and called on Ankara to recognise the sovereignty of Iraq.
 

A dozen suspected militants have been remanded in custody following anti-terror raids across Istanbul on the morning of Aug. 4, police said.
      
Of the 23 suspects arrested in the raids, police earlier identified three as being linked to the far-left Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C).
      

The end to a ceasefire with Kurdish militants and political uncertainty after inconclusive June elections are compounding already mounting problems for Turkey's stuttering economy, analysts say.

With the tension across the country rising following clashes between terrorists and Turkish security forces, two of Turkey's opposition parties met to seek ways to calm the situation and issued calls for the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) to end its attacks. 

Turkish fighter jets launched new air strikes against PKK Kurdish positions in south eastern Turkey near the Turkish-Iranian, reported Turkish News Agency Dogan. The operation, which lasted 35 minutes was retaliation for the death of two Turkish soldiers by from a mine that was detonated by a remote mechanism in a nearby town.

The outlawed Kurdistan Workers? Party (PKK) has received the Peoples? Democratic Party?s (HDP) message for a ceasefire, HDP co-chair Selahattin Demirta? has said, citing a European-based PKK senior figure as saying the PKK were ready to sit down for negotiations if the dialogue was restarted.

The European Union has expressed "deep concern" about recent violence between the Turkish government and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and urged Ankara to issue a "proportionate" response to avoid endangering the peace process