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A mysterious disappearance: Hursit Kulter issue

8 years 2 months ago

A Kurdish politician named Hursit Kulter went missing after he was detained for his alleged links to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), a militant group which is listed as terrorist by Turkey, the US, the EU and NATO and seeks to impose

Why is Turkey at war with the PKK?

8 years 3 months ago

On 29 August 2016, an article was published in The Wall Street Journal in which it was claimed that the ceasefire between the Turkish government and the Kurdistan Wo

Claim: HDP members jailed for supporting Kurdish rights

8 years 6 months ago

On 8 June 2016, Simon Tisdall published an article in The Guardian in which he claimed that some members of Turkey’s Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) were jailed for advocating Kurdish rights.

HDP co-chair Selahattin Demirtas repeats false claims in NYT

8 years 8 months ago

Turkey’s Peoples' Democratic Party’s (HDP) co-chair Selahattin Demirtas penned an article for The New York Times in whi

Claim: Kurdish militants rarely attack civilians

8 years 9 months ago

On 14 March 2016, Huffington Post’s Mahir Zeynalov published an article about the Ankara blast carried out the day before and claimed that “Kurdish militants rarely attack civilians”.

Claim: Turkey not serious about settlement with Kurds

8 years 10 months ago

The Guardian newspaper published an editorial titled “The Guardian view on Turkey’s Kurdish policies: compounding the region’s troubles” on 18 February 2016.

Claim: Military operations in southeastern Turkey “anti-Kurdish”

8 years 10 months ago

Russian news portal Sputnik claimed that the Turkish government has an “an ambitious anti-Kurdish initiative” and has been implementing “

Claim: Turkey’s battle with PKK guise for political system shift

8 years 10 months ago

On 2 February 2016, Al-Monitor’s Kadri Gursel published an article about the ongoing conflict between the Turkish Armed Forces and the PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party) terrorist group in which he claimed that “the battle is not being waged