Kurdistan Workers' Party

Peace bid must be finalized before 2015 elections, Demirtaş says

An accord to end Turkey’s decades-old Kurdish issue must be completed before the general elections scheduled for June 2015, according to People’s Democratic Party (HDP) co-leader Selahattin Demirtaş.

“The Kurdish issue cannot shoulder another election. Considering the general trends in the Middle East, this should happen,” he said Nov. 20.

Turkey won't change position on joining anti-ISIL coalition unless its conditions are met: President

Turkey will not alter its current position toward joining the anti-jihadist coalition unless the international community targets the Bashar al-Assad regime and moves to establish security zones and no-fly zones inside Syria, the Turkish president has said.

Finnish mediator Ahtisaari ‘turned down’ Kurds’ mediation offer

Finnish peace mediator Martti Ahtisaari says he turned down the offer due to the Turkish government’s hesitance over foreign involvement in the Kurdish peace process Finnish peace mediator Martti Ahtisaari has said the Kurds contacted him to play a mediation role in the Kurdish conflict years ago, but he did not respond at the time due to the Turkish government’s hesitance over foreign inv

İmralı talks time…

Bouncing back from the verge of total collapse, the “Kurdish opening” is apparently getting equipped with new gear: direct talks with Abdullah Öcalan, the separatist chieftain serving an enforced life term at the İmralı Island prison.

MHP: Gov’t portrays ISIL-PYD-PKK as ‘love butterflies’

The leader of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) has chastised the government for its "foreign policy failures," arguing that both the president and prime minister are so obsessed with toppling the Syrian president that they can portray all outlawed groups in the region as innocent “love butterflies.”

MHP leader claims gov’t is preparing to grant ‘political amnesty’ to PKK militants

The Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader has interpreted recent developments in the peace process as a signal indicating the ruling Justice and Development Party's (AKP) intention to grant a “political amnesty” to members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).

2,000 Syrian rebels to be trained in Turkey

US and Turkish military officials meet to hash out plans to train and arm 2,000 moderate Syrian rebels in Central Anatolia Military officials from the United States and Turkey have met at the Turkish General Staff’s headquarters in Ankara for a third time to discuss equipping and training moderate Syrian rebels, and agreed on using the Hirfanlı military training center in Kırşehir for the

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