Turkey recruits Syrian mercenaries to fight PKK in Iraqi Kurdistan
A new report by journalist Honar Ahmed reveals that Syrian mercenaries are actively fighting alongside the Turkish army in northern ...
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Ankara-Baghdad sign security deal establishing joint operations centre at Başika
Ankara and Baghdad formalised a new security memorandum of understanding on 15 August, which includes the establishment of a joint ...
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PKK’s tunnel warfare in response to Turkey’s drone campaign
The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) is intensifying its underground warfare strategy in response to Turkey's increasingly sophisticated drone capabilities, said ...
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After forty years of armed struggle – a weekly news review
Sarah Glynn On 15 August the Kurdish Freedom Movement marked forty years of armed struggle. Besê Hozat, co-president of ...
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Podcast: STUC’s Stephen Smellie on the campaign to free Öcalan
Stephen Smellie, a prominent Scottish trade unionist and a member of the Unison National Executive Council, is a key advocate ...
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Forty years of life over death
Fréderike Geerdink 15 August, that’s a day of celebration in the PKK. When I was in a language camp in ...
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KNK marks 40th anniversary of Kurdish armed struggle as ‘historic turning point’
Forty years ago, on 15 August 1984, the Kurdistan Liberation Movement began its armed struggle against Turkish policies of assimilation ...
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‘An offensive against genocidal politics’: Karayılan marks 40 years since PKK launched insurgency
Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) executive committee member Murat Karayılan, in a recent interview with Stêrk TV, marked the 40th anniversary ...
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KCDK-E celebrates 40 years of struggle, calls for unity, resistance
In a statement issued for the 40th anniversary of the launch of the armed struggle by the Kurdistan Workers' Party ...
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Öcalan: Forgotten Kurdish Mandela in 40th year of Turkey-PKK conflict
An article by Italian journalist Benedetta Argentieri* for The Post Internazionale, translated and condensed for MedyaNews, provides a comprehensive overview ...
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