Kurdish separatism in Turkey

The abbreviations and English translations of organizations linked to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers? Party (PKK) written in a notebook has been mentioned among the evidence seized by the police in the arrest of two British journalists working for VICE News, according to Turkey?s state-run Anadolu Agency. 

A doctor was killed in Turkey's southeastern province of Diyarbak?r late on Aug. 31 in a shooting carried out by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants, the district governor has stated.

Outlawed Kurdistan Workers? Party (PKK) militants have shot dead a police officer in an ambush in the eastern province of I?d?r.

Turkey's parliament will convene for an extraordinary session on Sept. 3 to vote on a motion to extend the mandate of the Turkish Armed Forces to take military action in Iraq and Syria.

The motion submitted by the Justice and Development Party (AKP) on Aug. 21 said there was an increased risk regarding national security.

Security forces will take all necessary measures to ensure election safety on Nov. 1 in a bid to avoid the repetition of problems that allegedly occurred in the June 7 polls, President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has said.

Referring to the two ministers from the Peoples? Democratic Party (HDP) in Turkey?s newly formed interim government, HDP co-chair Selahattin Demirta? has said they are there to prevent the Justice and Development Party (AKP) from ?easily deciding to go to war.?

Turkey marks the 93rd anniversary of its victory against Greece in the final battle of the War of Independence amid clashes with the outlawed PKK.

A non-commissioned female officer, accompanying the mother of a killed soldier during his funeral, took the attention of the media when she said that rich people would not become soldiers nor be martyred, while trying to soothe the mother?s pain.

A Turkish man has been sentenced to three years in prison for being a member of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in Germany.

The Hamburg Provincial High Court ordered three years' imprisonment for the man, identified only as Mehmet D. 

Turkey?s political decision makers could have read the Arab Spring in a much different way. Demands for a better, more just country, better income distribution, a true hope for a better tomorrow were not pie-in-the-sky demands for Turkey?s leaders. Yet, they failed to read between the lines. The outlawed Kurdistan Workers? Party?s (PKK) leadership did not.