Kurdish people

The 2,000 full-time employees of Chobani were handed an ownership stake in the yogurt company that could make some of them millionaires, as reported by New York Times on April 26.

Looking back from the Turkey of February 2016 to the pre-June 2015 Turkey, it is almost impossible not to feel the pain of the great golden opportunity lost for a political resolution to the greatest ever challenge faced by republican Turkey, the Kurdish issue.

A United Nations committee has voiced concern over widespread violations of human rights in Turkey, particularly focusing on racial profiling of Kurdish citizens during the campaign against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).

Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Mehmet ?im?ek said Turkey has shown remarkable progress in the fight against corruption and improving perceptions across the globe, noting however more progress was needed in a speech at a conference held by the Washington branch of the Foundation for Political Social and Economic Research Association (SETA) in the U.S. capital on Jan 7.  

A co-leader of Turkey's Kurdish problem-focused Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) has raised question marks over President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an's conviction that Turkey has had no Kurdish problem, while also challenging Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu to a public debate over a presidential system and autonomy.

Turkey has no Kurdish problem but only a terrorism problem, President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has said, maintaining his bellicose rhetoric on the conflagration in Southeast Anatolia.

All ethnic groups in Turkey have their own specific problems and the government has been constantly exerting efforts to eliminate these problems, Erdo?an said in a speech delivered on Jan. 6.

Violence has again erupted in Turkey’s southeastern province of Diyarbakır, as police used water cannons and armored vehicles to crack down on a planned rally organized by the Kurdish problem-focused Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP)

According to the French News Agency, six people, including a 7-year old child and 3 civilians were killed in the ongoing clashes between the Turkish special forces and the Kurdish PKK rebels in two separate incidents in Turkey, Thursday.

Be careful what you wish for, in politics too; things may not go as planned.

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu has tried to ease Iraqi Kurds? concerns by stressing the Turkish military?s operations in northern Iraq were specifically targeting the outlawed Kurdistan Workers? Party (PKK) and not all Kurds.