Kurdistan Workers' Party

Families engaged in a sit-in protest in the southeastern city of Diyarbakir ended a two-day hunger strike June 11. They were protesting for the release of their children who allegedly joined the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).

While still not officially announcing his candidacy, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has used a gathering with executives from his ruling party’s local branches to publicly instruct them to begin campaigning for the upcoming presidential elections.

The co-leader of the pro-Kurdish party represented at Parliament has called for calm, praising local Kurds for resisting the growing military presence in their region but warning that disrespect for the Turkish flag is a “provocation.”

A senior leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has said Kurdish politicans can not represent them during their meetings with the organization’s jailed leader, Abdullah Öcalan A senior leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has said that neither the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) nor the Peoples’ Democracy Party (HDP) can represent them during their meeting

The removal of a Turkish flag at an Air Force base in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır is indication of a de facto occupation by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli has said, calling on the chief of general staff to resign over his responsibility for such a failure.

Some 750 youths under the age of 18 joined the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) forces in one year, according to a fresh report by a police agency.

The government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has done more than any previous Turkish government in trying to address the country’s Kurdish problem.

The social, cultural and political steps it has taken in this regard may not appear highly significant to an outsider.

After a peaceful period of nearly two years following the Turkish government’s initiative to pursue a political solution to the chronic Kurdish problem, the tension has disproportionately increased in the last two weeks, reaching its top, when a Kurdish militant jumped into the garden of a major Air Force base in Diyarbakır despite warning shots, climbed the mast, pulled down the flag and ra

A group of families in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır have started a hunger strike to demand the return of their children who joined the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).

The families were holding a sit-in protest in front of the Diyarbakır Municipality amid demands that the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) mediate for the release of their children.

The number of the youth going to the mountains to join the PKK has not decreased, despite the peace process, says Professor Nükhet Sirman from the Women for Peace initiative.