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Turkish jets patrol border as Syria cease-fire largely holds
Turkey was on Feb. 27 closely following a landmark U.N.-backed cease-fire in Syria that came into effect at midnight in the war-torn country.
Turkish Air Force F-16s continuously patrol the Turkish-Syrian border with the cease-fire largely holding amid reports of some minor clashes and attacks.
PYD aims to create refugee influx to gain territory: Turkish security officials
Security officials have stated that Turkey began shelling positions of Syria's Democratic Union Party (PYD) militias due to the fear that the PYD's capture of Azaz, a critical town in the Syrian conflict, could spark a new refugee influx towards the Turkish border.
50 kilos of explosives found in Turkish border town
The Turkish gendarmerie has found four abandoned bags stuffed with 50 kilograms of plastic explosives in the southeastern district of Akçakale, which is across the border from Syria's Tal Abyad, which is under Democratic Union Party (PYD) rule.
Gendarmerie officials on patrol duty in the Bakacak region of ?anl?urfa's Akçakale noticed the four abandoned backpacks in a field.
Erdo?an says Turkey may hit US-backed PYD to block advance
Turkey will "do what is necessary" to prevent U.S.-allied Syrian Kurdish militants from declaring autonomy in the town of Tel Abyad near the Turkish border, including conducting further military operations, President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an said on Oct. 28.
Turkey strikes Kurdish PYD in Syria twice: Turkish PM
The Turkish army has hit the Democratic Union Party (PYD) in northern Syria twice for violating the red line Turkey has imposed on the western part of the Euphrates River, the Turkish prime minister has said.
"We said: 'The PYD will not pass to the west of the Euphrates. We'll hit them if they do.' And we hit them twice.
PYD names Tal Abyad part of its 'canton'
Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) in Syria has incorporated a mixed town they captured from Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) into territory they claim in the country?s north.
According to the PYD, Tal Abyad?s local council agreed Oct. 21 their town would be ruled by ?autonomous administration, formally part of the autonomous administration in the Kobane canton.?
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Is it so hard to say it was an ISIL attack?
The legal restrictions imposed on the media over news of the Oct. 10 Ankara suicide bombings - in which the number of deaths hit 102 on Oct. 16 (with many heavily wounded victims still in hospital) - did not work well this time.
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Analyst: Both PKK and AKP want HDP to be weakened
The Middle Eastern Studies Center of top-ranking Harvard University hosted Turkish journalist-author Cengiz Çandar last week. Çandar spoke in the seminar "Understanding and Misunderstanding Turkey and the Middle East," with American academics bombarding Çandar with questions to unravel the dramatic changes in Turkey since the June 7 election.
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Turkey, US agree PYD cannot cross west of Euphrates: Turkish official
Turkey and the United States both agree that the Democratic Union Party (PYD) cannot be permitted to enter an area in Syria in which Turkey plans to establish a zone that will ostensibly be free of jihadists, according to a Foreign Ministry official.
ISIL attacks Syrian Kurdish outpost near Turkish border
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants on July 25 detonated explosive laden trucks in two villages near the Kurdish-controlled Syrian border town of Tel Abyad, with reports of casualties, a monitor that tracks the war said.