Turkey warns US of blowback from arming Kurdish fighters in Syria
By Reuters – May 11,2017 – JORDAN TIMES Kurdish fighters from the People’s Protection Units head a convoy of US military vehicles in the town of Darbasiya next to […]
US sends new military convoy to support YPG after Turkish airstrikes
DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL PublishedMay 6, 2017 Some 250 U.S. soldiers and 48 military vehicles have entered the town of Malikiyah in Eastern Syria, near the Turkish border, to support the outlawed terrorist group PKK’s Syrian offshoot Democratic Union Party (PYD), the Syrian Local Coordination Committee (LCC) reported Friday. According to […]
Any room for Europe to ignore Turkey?
SAADET ORUÇ@saadetoruc Pro-PKK supporters seen holding a banner that reads “Lift the PKK ban” during a demonstration in front of the Reichstag building in Berlin to show solidarity with the terrorist group Regarding concerns from the refugee influx to security, the EU should simply cooperate with Turkey The recent move […]
Switzerland opens probe into ‘Kill Erdoğan’ poster in pro-PKK rally in Bern
DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL AP Photo Authorities in Bern have opened a probe into a mass meeting of members and sympathizers of the PKK terrorist group in the Swiss capital […]
Germany OKs PKK march after barring Turkish rallies
DAILY SABAH WITH ANADOLU AGENCY ISTANBUL PKK followers carry a flag with a picture of terrorist group’s leader and other banned posters and flags in Frankfurt, Germany. (EPA Photo) An event organized by terrorist PKK followers took place in Germany city of Frankfurt, just weeks after German authorities banned Turkish […]
(Syria not sufficiently destroyed yet:) US to supply heavy weaponry, armored vehicles to YPG-dominated group in northern Syria
DAILY SABAH WITH AGENCIES ISTANBUL A convoy carrying military aid to the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) drive near the northeastern Syrian city of Hasaka, Syria February 24, 2017. Picture taken February 24, 2017. Spokesman Talal Sello of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which is dominated by the PKK’s Syria offshoot, […]
US Senator John McCain makes secret trip to northern Syria
DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL AA Photo United States Rep. Senator, John McCain, who met with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Ankara on Monday, has announced that he went to Syria before coming to Turkey. McCain, the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, reportedly visited the city of northern Syrian city […]
PKK propagates, recruits at German university
KAAN ELBIR@kaanelbir ISTANBUL Photo courtesy: @1almanyali Sympathizers of the PKK, which is officially classified as a terrorist organization by Germany and the EU, made propaganda at the Technical University of Berlin on Thursday leading many to question their influence within German educational institutions. A banner with the title “Resistance means […]
View from Turkey: Where is the sympathy that Turkey deserves?
MERVE ŞEBNEM ORUÇ@mervesebnem The Westerners will again not show Turkey, which faced twin deadly blasts in Istanbul, the same sympathy they displayed upon France’s Charlie Hebdo terror attack Articles COLUMNSNew civil society dialogues between Turkey and EU? COLUMNSWill Turkey join Shanghai Cooperation Organization? COLUMNSThe way things are going […]
This is what it feels like to be an ordinary Kurd caught in the tragedy of Turkey’s turmoil
This man’s story, told with the usual anonymity for this tragic place, must melt a heart of stone and so I tell it in his own words Robert Fisk in Diyabarkir @indyvoices Home again: Turkish Kurds returning to Diyarbakir in the spring after a curfew on the city is lifted […]
Turkish army says Islamic State putting up ‘stiff resistance’ in Syria
Reuters International OCT 12, 2016 A Turkish Army military vehicle, with the Syrian town of Kobani in the background, patrols on the Turkish-Syrian border in Suruc in Sanliurfa province, Turkey, June 26, 2015. REUTERS/Murad Sezer (reuters_tickers) ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Islamic State militants in northern Syria are putting up “stiff […]
Why did President Erdogan restart the battle with the Kurdish PKK?
The democratic Kurdish parties are dwarfed by this battle, which consumed the centre of Diyabarkir last winter and early spring, and then Cizre – and then Nusaybin Robert Fisk in Nusaybin @indyvoices The PKK enlists women and men as suicide bombers and rifle-carrying suicide guerrillas in its battle against the Turkish […]
Special Report – In fight against Islamic State, Kurds expand their territory
Special Report – In fight against Islamic State, Kurds expand their territory A member of the Kurdish Peshmerga forces gestures in Zumar, Iraq October 25, 2014. REUTERS/Ari Jalal/File Photo left right 1/12 By Isabel Coles and Stephen Kalin | ZUMAR, IRAQ From the terrace of the house Abu Suhail occupies, […]
Destruction in Kurdish capital of south-east Turkey is dark mirror to Syria
Hundreds of houses are peppered with bullet holes in Diyarbakir, where the Kurdish PKK, or Workers’ Party, are fighting the Turkish government Robert Fisk in Diyarbakir @indyvoices All day and all night, the big white trucks roar along the muddy road inside the black, volcanic walls of Diyarbakir. They enter […]
On either side of the Turkish-Syrian border, you encounter a past and a present which puts Britain to shame
When a Syrian peasant woman approaches our table in a small Ottoman restaurant, the locals step forward to give her coins. It puts to shame the liars of the Brexit campaign and their hatred of the foreigners who supposedly threaten little England Robert Fisk Kilis @indyvoices 176 comments Syrian refugees […]
Different protagonists, and objectives, in Syria
Sep 25,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Amer Al Sabaileh A new phase in the Syrian crisis was triggered by the Turkish intervention in the north of the country. While there are many reasons for this Turkish move, it very quickly ended the dream of a Kurdish state, which has been floated recently. […]
Turkey wants to join U.S.-led operation against Islamic State in Raqqa – Erdogan
Reuters International SEP 25, 2016 – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses the United Nations General Assembly in the Manhattan borough of New York, U.S. September 20, 2016. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz (reuters_tickers) ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkey wants to join the United States in a military operation to push Islamic State […]
Dozens held as teachers protest suspensions in Turkey’s southeast, union says
Reuters International SEP 9, 2016 – Riot police detain a demonstrator during a protest against the suspension of teachers from classrooms over alleged links with Kurdish militants, in the southeastern city of Diyarbakir, Turkey, September 9, 2016. REUTERS/Sertac Kayar (reuters_tickers) By Umit Ozdal DIYARBAKIR (Reuters) – Turkish police detained dozens […]
Euphrates Shield turning point for Middle East
NAGEHAN ALÇI@Nagehanalci PublishedAugust 26, 2016 Great efforts are being made to destabilize Turkey. In one sense, these are endeavors made by various terrorist organizations and international powers supporting them to turn Turkey into the new Syria. DAESH, the PKK and the Gülenist Terror Group (FETÖ) are attacking from every side […]
Hypocrites or allies? YPG terror demands an answer
Turkey last Wednesday initiated the Euphrates Shield military operation aimed at creating a safe zone from DAESH incursions in northern Syria, from the Euphrates River to Afrin, currently in the hands of the PKK terrorist group’s Syrian wing, the People’s Protection Units (YPG). Since that day, Turkey-backed Free Syrian Army […]