Kurdistan Workers' Party
The Zana code
It is an important development that Leyla Zana is visiting ?mral? Island. The reason is that the peace process in Turkey has come to a point where it can directly affect what is going on in North Iraq and North Syria. Zana, after her previous ?mral? visit, had crossed over to Iraq and met with Masoud Barzani.
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Watch video with 'Italian' jihadist in leading role
Footage shown by the Italian website Globalist.it depicts members of the terror group preparing for a suicide attack against PKK positions in northern Syria.
As the website reports, Italian secret services confirmed the authenticity of the video, which means that the presence of foreign fighters in Syria and Iraq, fighting alongside jihadists, is also confirmed.
HDP team visits PKK leader after key press meeting with Turkish government
Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) deputy S?rr? Süreyya Önder and independent deputy Leyla Zana, a leading figure in the Kurdish political movement, will visit Abdullah Öcalan, the jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) on ?mral? Island Prison, the party said in a press statement on March 5.
Hollande and Tsipras invited to Nevruz feast in Turkey's southeast, says DTK spokesperson
French President Francois Hollande and Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras are among the leaders who have been invited to this year?s Nevruz celebrations in Diyarbak?r.
Kurdish figures' names to be given to schools in southeastern province
The names of historic Kurdish figures will be given to a number of schools in the southeastern Turkish province of Batman, Provincial Director of National Education Mehmet Çelik has said.
Gov't using Kurdish process as election tool: HDP
The co-chair of the Kurdish problem-focused Peoples? Democratic Party (HDP) has claimed that the government is simply using the process as a tool to score points ahead of the upcoming parliamentary elections scheduled for June 7.
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Turkey's AKP, HDP playing election games, CHP leader says
Main opposition Republican People?s Party (CHP) leader Kemal K?l?çdaro?lu has described the recent talks - and tensions - between the government and the Peoples? Democratic Party (HDP), as little more than ?election propaganda.?
MHP likens government's joint statement with HDP to treaty that ended Ottoman Empire
Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) lead Devlet Bahçeli has likened the disarmament call by the jailed outlawed Kurdistan Workers? Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan to the Treaty of Sevres, which marked the defeat of the Ottoman Empire at the end of World War I.
Turkish government expects PKK to 'take steps' by March 21
The Turkish government has reiterated its insistence that the outlawed Kurdistan Workers? Party (PKK) declare the laying down of arms by March 21, when the Nevruz holiday is marked.
10-point declaration is not precondition, but indentation for disarmament: Turkish PM
Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu has insistently argued that the latest call by the jailed leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) does not outline a precondition and is an explicit declaration of intent for the PKK's disarmament.