Left-wing politics

The youth wing of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has claimed to have killed an operative of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Istanbul.

One soldier was killed and another was injured in an ambush set by outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants near the Iranian border in the eastern province of Van late on Aug. 20.

A group describing itself as the public order unit of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party’s (PKK) youth organization has staged an “operation against drug use,” raiding cafes in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır.

Selahattin Demirtaş, the presidential candidate and co-leader of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), has likened the Soma mine disaster to the killing of 34 civilians mistaken for terrorists by the Turkish Air Forces in the Şırnak’s Uludere district in 2011.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ordered Turkey to pay 65,000 euros for the tear gas canister-related death of a passerby during a protest in 2006, also ruling that “Turkey must regulate the use of tear-gas grenades.”

Reports on a young Gezi protester, who became publicly known as “the girl with the red foulard,” which states that she joined the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), have been used as evidence by the prosecutor in her trial.

Militants from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) allegedly kidnapped seven villagers in a rural area of the southeastern province of Şırnak late on June 22.

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.

Istanbul police detained a man on June 5 after he was outed by social media users as “the pink-shirted provocateur” who participated in a fiery Kurdish protest minutes before attending a Turkish nationalist demonstration in the same neighborhood.

Three soldiers were wounded on May 31 during clashes with a group of protesters who blocked the road between the southeastern province of Diyarbakır and Bingöl.

Gendarmerie forces cracked down on the demonstrators in the Lice district of Diyarbakır, where the tension has been high since last week’s clashes with security forces and some groups, Anadolu Agency reported.