Kurdish lawmaker Musa Farisogullari says he has been targeted by water cannon, tear gas and blows from riot shields while trying to protest this month against Turkey's military offensive in northeast Syria.
The incursion, targeting the Syrian (...)
Riot police fired water cannon and tear gas to disperse protesters demonstrating in southeast Turkey on Tuesday against the ousting of three Kurdish mayors five months after they were elected.
Ankara replaced the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic (...)
The Turkish government removed three mayors from office on Monday over alleged links to Kurdish militants as Ankara deepened its crackdown on the opposition.
The mayors of Diyarbakir, Mardin and Van provinces in eastern Turkey — all members of the (...)
A lawmaker from Turkey's pro-Kurdish opposition was injured when police fired water cannon to disperse protests against results of the March 31 local elections in southeastern Turkey, a witness at the demonstrations said.
Last week, the Peoples (...)
Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu revealed his country's grand hegemonistic ambition of expanding its territory beyond Turkey.
"We are not only just Turkey, but also Damascus, Aleppo, Kirkuk, Jerusalem, Palestine, Makkah, and Madinah," Soylu (...)
A Turkish court ordered the release on Friday of a Kurdish lawmaker jailed last year for criticizing Ankara's military operation in Syria and on hunger strike for nearly three months.
Leyla Guven still faces trial and up to 31 years' jail over (...)
Turkish soldiers clashed with Kurdish militants in a rural area of southeast Turkey near the Iraqi border on Friday morning and two soldiers were killed, the armed forces said.
The firefight occurred around 9.30 am (0630 GMT) in the Uludere district (...)
Turkish soldiers clashed with Kurdish militants in a rural area of southeast Turkey near the Iraqi border on Friday morning and two soldiers were killed, the armed forces said.
The firefight occurred around 9.30 am (0630 GMT) in the Uludere district (...)
Six Turkish soldiers were killed and seven people, including civilians, wounded on Sunday when a car bomb exploded near a police station in a border region of the country's southeast, security sources said.
The sources said the blast hit the Durak (...)
A car bomb that ripped through a military outpost in southeast Turkey on Sunday killed 17 people, including nine soldiers, Reuters quoted the provincial governor's office as saying in a statement on Sunday.
It said 27 people were wounded in the (...)
Turkey's army killed 35 Kurdish militants after they attempted to storm a base in the southeastern Hakkari province early on Saturday, military officials said.
The overnight attack came hours after clashes in Hakkari's Cukurca district between (...)
Kurdish militants attacked a police checkpoint in the eastern Turkish province of Tunceli overnight, killing one police officer and wounding two others, the provincial governor's office said on Sunday, according to Reuters.
Fighters of the outlawed (...)
One police officer was killed and seven people were wounded in Turkey's southeastern province of Diyarbakir on Tuesday when a bomb exploded as an armoured police vehicle was passing, security sources said, according to Reuters.
The blast hit an area (...)
Turkish warplanes killed 13 suspected Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants on Saturday in the southeast province of Diyarbakir, military sources said.
According to Reuters, the rebels were spotted by an unmanned aerial vehicle in the Lice region, (...)
Turkish warplanes struck Kurdish militant targets in northern Iraq and southeast Turkey and the army killed 27 fighters near its borders with Iraq and Iran, the armed forces said on Sunday, according to Reuters.
Air strikes on Saturday destroyed gun (...)
Two rockets from ISIS controlled Syrian territory struck the Turkish town of Kilis on Sunday, injuring at least two people, security sources said, according to Reuters.
The town which is just across the border from Syria has come under repeated (...)
The Turkish army carried out air strikes in rural parts of southeastern Turkey and northern Iraq, targeting logistics posts used by Kurdish militants, security sources said on Saturday.
Twenty jets took off from Diyarbakir air base late on Friday (...)
Turkey declared a curfew in the southeastern town of Silopi on Tuesday after Kurdish militants launched a rocket attack on an armored police vehicle, killing one officer and wounding four, security sources said.
Witnesses said gunfire rang out in (...)
Turkish news agencies say four policemen were killed and 14 people were wounded Thursday in an explosion near a bus terminal in the mainly Kurdish city of Diyarbakir.
According to dpa, the state-run Anadolu Agency said a bomb detonated as a special (...)
Seven police officers were killed Thursday in an explosion caused by bomb-laden car in the mainly Kurdish city of Diyarbakir, the local governor's office and police force said in a joint statement, AP reported.
Twenty-seven people were injured, (...)
A local elected official was killed in Turkey's strife-hit southeast on Monday after a weekend of violence that also claimed the lives of almost 30 militants and soldiers, according to security sources.
Ibrahim Inco, the village leader in Sarioren (...)
The Daesh militants launched an assault on a Kurdish-controlled town on Syria's border with Turkey on Saturday, prompting air strikes by the US-led coalition to try to drive them back.
The militants attacked Tel Abyad, which is controlled by the (...)
Turkish warplanes bombed Kurdish militant camps in northern Iraq overnight, hours after a suicide car bomb attack targeting military buses killed 28 soldiers and civilians in the Turkish capital Ankara, security sources said on Thursday.
A car laden (...)
Kurdish militants detonated a roadside bomb in southeast Turkey overnight, killing three police officers in an armoured vehicle while a rocket attack knocked out power in part of the region's main city, security sources said on Monday, according to (...)
Turkish forces killed 12 Kurdish militants after finding them in a house in the southeastern city of Van overnight, Reuters cited security sources as saying on Sunday.
One police officer also died and two others were wounded during the operation in (...)