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08.05.2013 11:43
A pro-Kurdish party in Turkey says Kurdish rebels have begun withdrawing from the country as part of efforts to end a nearly three-decades-old conflict that has killed tens of thousands of people.
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04.12.2012 11:04
Reports of rape, domestic violence, honor killings, female genital mutilation, and self-immolation are still widespread throughout Iraq's traditionally conservative Kurdish region. A number of initiatives have been launched in the region in an effort to raise awareness of these problems.
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Zones: Transmission , Blogs , Iran , Iraq , Picks
20.06.2012 17:35
Turkey's military says attack helicopters and warplanes have pounded Kurdish rebel targets in northern Iraq after a rebel attack on Turkish forces near the Iraqi border left eight Turkish soldiers dead.
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Zones: Iraq , News
30.12.2011 13:03
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has expressed regret for the deaths of 35 Kurdish civilians in an air strike, saying it had been determined they were smugglers and not separatist rebels.
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11.11.2011 14:34
A senior Iraqi official says the Iraqi government and the Kurdish regional government (KRG) have reached a tentative agreement on a contentious oil and gas bill and other issues.
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Zones: Iraq , From Our Bureaus , News
07.11.2011 16:06
After years of lobbying. the Turkish government is claiming a major diplomatic breakthrough with Washington in its bid to secure the use of U.S. drones. The Turkish prime minister has claimed he has received a commitment from the U.S. president for Turkey to be provided "Predator" drones to be used in its fight against the Kurdish rebel group PKK. As Dorian Jones reports from Istanbul, Ankara sees the decision as part of a deepening relationship in the region with Washington.
Tags: kurds , PKK
Zones: Features , Iraq , Picks
Authors: Dorian Jones
19.10.2011 07:52
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Turkey is in "hot pursuit" of Kurdish militants after more than two dozen soldiers were killed in attacks near the border with Iraq.
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05.09.2011 14:04
Renewed clashes between protesters and security forces have been reported in Azeri-speaking areas of Iran, amid demonstrations over the drying up of the country's largest lake. The reports coincide with the announcement of a fresh Iranian military offensive against a Kurdish separatist group.
Tags: ethnic tension , kurds
Zones: Features , Azerbaijan , Iran , Picks
Authors: Robert Tait
05.09.2011 07:46
Iranian state television says that country's elite Revolutionary Guards have killed 22 rebels of the Party of Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK) in a new offensive along the northwestern border with Iraq.
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24.08.2011 15:39
Turkey claims it has killed up to 100 members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party in recent raids into northern Iraq, part of what promises to be a wider offensive. But two years after the government launched its "Kurdish opening" in a blaze of fanfare, why are such actions necessary now?
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Authors: Robert Tait
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