Organizations designated as terrorist

More than a year after a letter bomb sent from Greece exploded at International Monetary Fund (IMF) headquarters in Paris, injuring the employee who opened it, French counterterrorism and judicial officials were in Athens recently to discuss the progress of investigations with their Greek counterparts, Kathimerini has learned.

Panagiota Roupa, a leading member of domestic terrorist group Revolutionary Struggle, was on Wednesday given a life term, and an additional 25-year sentence, for a car bomb attack outside the Bank of Greece headquarters in central Athens in April 2014.

Greece, and to a lesser extent Italy and Spain, are the only countries in the European Union still facing the threat of left-wing violence, Europol said in its annual "Terrorism Situation and Trend" (TESAT) report.

A senior Turkish government member has refuted international calls for Turkey to return to the negotiation table with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), asking whether these countries could guarantee that militants would lay down their arms.

A land mine production facility built by outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants in the southeastern province of ??rnak was destroyed by Turkish security forces on April 23, security sources have said, as counter-terrorism operations continue against the PKK, which most recently carried out a bomb attack that killed two soldiers and wounded three others in the southeastern province of

A total of 12 police officers and three civilians were wounded on April 23 in an outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) bomb attack near the Maz?da?? district of the southeastern province of Mardin

PKK militants detonated a bomb placed on the Mardin-Diyarbak?r motorway during the passing of an armored police shuttle.

The Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) does not possess any weapons of mass destruction (WMDs), Defense Minister ?smet Y?lmaz has said.

"There are no chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear weapons in the inventory of the TSK," Y?lmaz said in response to a motion filed by a deputy of the Kurdish problem-focused Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP).

12 people were wounded on April 11 when multiple rocket projectiles fired from Syria landed in the southeastern border province of Kilis.

According to initial reports, three rocket projectiles were fired from Syria, wounding 12.

Meanwhile, the Turkish artillery began to shell spotted positions where the rocket projectiles came from.

In his long address to the Turkish War Colleges in Istanbul on March 28, President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an argued that Turkey was the world's top country for preserving the balance between security and freedom, despite going through an extremely difficult period with terrorist attacks claiming the lives of civilians and security personnel. 

Two soldiers were killed and five others were wounded on late March 27 in an outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) attack in the Nusaybin district of the southeastern province of Mardin.